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Died. Lucius Boomer, 68, boss of Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; of a heart ailment; in Hamar, Norway, where he was vacationing (see BUSINESS...
...decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria. By 1929, harddriving, handsome Innkeeper Boomer thought he knew just what people wanted in a hotel...
Same night, same city, New York County Republicans dined more austerely at the Waldorf-Astoria. For $50 a plate, 1,200 diners got stuffed tomato, sirloin of beef, nuts and coffee, and a speech by Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...Herbert Hoover lives quietly for most of the year in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. His wife died three years ago. His hair is a little thinner, his face a little heavier, his stiff collars a little lower. He has given up all his business directorships, spends much of his time collecting historical records for Stanford University's Hoover Library of War, Revolution and Peace. Last February he made an exhausting, 6,000-mile trip to survey Europe's food needs...
...first clang of the fire alarm, the Duke of Windsor flung out of his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers and up two flights to Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...