Word: waldorf
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...Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week the call came again, loud and clear. Artie dialed the Trans World Airline counter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, told them he was going to Hollywood to make a picture and wanted a reservation. Yes, he said, the afternoon Constellation that stopped at Pittsburgh and St. Louis would be all right. He'd pick up the airport limousine at the hotel...
...hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...
...T.W.A. agent was waiting when the Connie landed at Pittsburgh. Somehow, there were 42 tickets and 43 passengers on the plane, he said. When they came to Artie, he told them that he had left his ticket on the reservation desk at the Waldorf back in New York. T.W.A. could pick it up there...
...thing the big four have in common, beyond their perfect records and the prospect of one or more men each on 1949's All-America, is coaching power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces...
...first the plan was for the Band to play in the main ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria for one of the dinner meetings, but the 110 pieces would have made it necessary to limit dining attendance considerably. It was finally decided to have the Band play for just 15 minutes at the opening breakfast. They will travel to New York by pullman sleeper, leaving Boston Tuesday night...