Word: waldorf
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...party Jiggs would have mightily enjoyed. Into the lofty grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, shirt-sleeved waiters, sweating, bumping against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
...colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town for as the last show they saw, Oklahoma! Webster used to play poker every Friday night through Sunday morning, in a room in the old Waldorf-Astoria. The concentration was such that once, when food was sent up, and he chomped a mouthful of broken glass in his lettuce, Webster spat it out without a murmur rather than interrupt the game...
...Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel, some 2,000 foreign traders last week were told a fact of postwar life that old China hands already knew. The teller was Clarence Edward Gauss, ex-ambassador to China. Said Mr. Gauss: "China has emerged from the war a fully sovereign state. The vexatious issues relating to special foreign privileges existing in China under the old 'unequal' treaties having been swept away, we must enter upon our postwar trade relations on a new basis...
...cavernous ballroom of Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria, rich-voiced Paul Robeson recited 1,300 words of poetic prose written for the occasion by Radio Writer Norman Corwin and dedicated to an atomic world: "Set Your Clock at U-235." Then came General of the Army George C. Marshall, to say less flamboyantly that "there appear to be no short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen...
...ship's bow with five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...