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Harold Urey, standing before the Roosevelt Day dinner of the Americans for Democratic Action in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had a right to be heard. His Nobel Prize had been won in 1934 for the discovery of heavy hydrogen, a basic step toward the development both of the first atomic bomb and any hydrogen bomb that may come. He had predicted the date of the Russian atomic bomb explosion far more accurately than had U.S. military or political leaders...
Blue-eyed Chuck Luckman greeted them warmly, bundled them into his waiting Cadillac and whisked them off to Manhattan. If he assumed that this was just another routine inspection tour, he was soon disillusioned. Two days later, after almost continuous conferences in Luck-man's Waldorf Towers apartment, Luckman had moved...
...Manhattan's big and fancy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, General Motors opened the biggest and fanciest auto show of the new season. On the first day, 50,000 people crowded around the 38 shiny models, gawked at the musical review designed to show 50 years of motor history, were buttonholed by hustling salesmen with the old prewar invitation: "See how it feels behind the wheel...
...Nash-Kelvinator Corp. tried a new way to find the answer to an old question: How many Americans want a small car that will sell for $1,000? He actually made a small car. Last week he showed it to 450 hand-picked guests in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and passed out the first of 250,000 questionnaires to find out what people think of it. Most of those who saw it liked...
Under the smooth promotional hand of Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 100 top amateur U.S. cooks competed last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in a $70,-ooo prize baking contest. With 100 electric ranges set up on the ballroom floor, the cooks-97 women and three men-donned aprons and went to work. All day, under the watchful gaze of judges, the hopefuls produced such culinary delights as golden glow cake, black & white pie and glorified cherry upside-down cake...