Word: waldorf
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Almost all the action takes place in the Hotel Bijon, a name singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...
Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy quickly jumped to Gromyko's defense. McNeil, he said, must have been visiting "the delicatessen of the Waldorf-Astoria. People in my delicatessen talk differently." When a newsman later asked where his pro-Russian delicatessen was located, Katz-Suchy impatiently brushed him off. "I often eat in delicatessens," he said evasively, "all along Sixth Avenue...
...Odets may speak softly to Astrologer Holmes, but he had to shout to be heard above the tumult at the Waldorf. Meanwhile, theatergoers certainly have been reaching to hear what he has to say at the National Theater...
...Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed his own three-column-long speech in the Post...
...finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied: "We have hotels in Moscow just as good as the Waldorf-but not as tall...