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...noes-Harry Truman's and Adlai Stevenson's-still echoed through Democratic ranks last week as the party faithful gathered at the Waldorf for the great New York clambake. The affair was officially billed as a $100-a-plate testimonial dinner honoring Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman and launching him as a presidential candidate. It was also a prime Democratic livestock show, with all the prize specimens on display. But one measure of the Democrats' dazed condition was the fact that the blue ribbon went to Stevenson, who had just strolled out of the pasture...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover knows just how the Italians feel about radio (see above). At a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria honoring his boyhood friend, Lee De Forest, whose three-element tube made radio possible, Hoover lamented that the invention had also made possible the broadcasting of "the worst music on earth-and political speeches." Said the ex-President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest...
...Scholastic Press Association-excitedly wondered if the President would toss them a whopping scoop, such as an announcement that he will run for office again. Harry Truman chose not to let that cat out of the bag. Instead, beamish and bubbly, he told his young audience in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom...
Another Republican challenge to debate came from New York's Governor Thomas Dewey. Speaking from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria before the National Industrial Conference Board, Dewey confined himself generally to U.S. Far Eastern policy. Unlike Hoover, he urged no shrinkage but an extension of American commitment in foreign policy...
...Subcommittee Counsel Adrian DeWind introduced some startling evidence: a list of calls from the private telephone in Jess Larson's office, showing that Larson called Nathan nine times last June and July. The calls, ranging up to 20 minutes in lengfti, were made to Miami and to the Waldorf-Astoria in'New York...