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While Oosterbaan was building up the opposition and tearing down his own team, California Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was keeping mum and concentrating on football fundamentals. Waldorf put his pre-game program in two words, "Hard work." His veteran squad, unbeaten for the season, had a special incentive for hard work: the rankling memory of four consecutive Rose Bowl lickings for the West Coast at the hands of the Big Ten, including California's own 17-14 defeat by Ohio State on New Year...
Gloomy Bennie Oosterbaan went Waldorf one better. After getting special Conference permission for Sunday practice, he ordered an extra workout on the day before Christmas. While California took the day off, Michigan went grimly to work on a set of new plays. Oosterbaan had decided that California's powerhouse ground game would have to be met with a brand-new bag of tricks, but after the special drill, Oosterbaan was still "thoroughly discontented" with his team's progress...
Bevies of pretty young girls in white ballroom gowns were introduced to society on schedule at Philadelphia's Assembly Ball, the Chicago Cotillion, the Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and at other smaller affairs. Cole Porter's new musical Out of This World opened on Broadway (see THEATER) , and was all but eclipsed on its own opening night when members of the audience spotted the Duke & Duchess of Windsor during intermission and swarmed around them thrusting out pencils and scraps of paper. Not all audiences were that boisterous. New Yorkers crowded Manhattan...
General Wu Hsiu-chuan and his eight comrades from Peking said goodbye to the U.N., checked out of the Waldorf-Astoria after a 26-day stay, headed for Idlewild airport and a British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser that would fly them to London on the first leg of the long trip home, via Russia, of course...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, delegates to the National Association of Manufacturers' 55th annual congress were in an unusually humble mood. Unlike other years, when NAMsters have freely bombarded the Administration, there were only a few stray potshots. In fact, N.A.M. ex-President Ira Mosher thought that the world situation looked so serious that ways had to be found finally to "heal the breach" between Government and business...