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...picture industry, whose aim is always to please the greatest number, last week staged its sequel to the big show put on by the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee. Fifty of the industry's top executives, representing virtually every U.S. film producer, got together in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After two days of conferences, they fired the ten Hollywood writers and producers cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify whether or not they are Communists...
Louella Parsons "was dashing into the revolving door at the Waldorf and [the Duke & Duchess of Windsor] were dashing out with three dogs following them, laughing and apparently in high spirits...
...Crimson ball-packer Chip Gannon, and Vince Moravec '47, Varsity captain, were honored with awards Saturday during the Pepsi-Cola Company football banquet at the Waldorf Astoria in New York...
Dick Harlow's 1947 squad may not be the top-ranking team in the nation, but tomorrow night they will dominate a banquet and ball in the Waldorf-Astoria to which more than 100 college football stars have been invited. The only complete team in the country to be so honored, the Crimson players and their guests will be the guests of Walter S. Mack '17, former Varsity football manager, at the affair given for the benefit of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association of New York. Mack is now president of the Pepsi Cola Company...
...never had B.C. rubbed elbows with so many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...