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...Church Club's dinner last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he said: "There is an undoubted revival of religion [in Russia], Complete freedom of worship within their churches is granted to all religions. Anti-God propaganda has been suspended, godless museums are closed, and respect for religion is encouraged. The Orthodox Church has greater freedom than it ever had under the Tsars. The churches are crowded, though many are still closed or secularized. The change in the Soviet attitude toward religion is due to the recognition that religion cannot be eradicated, that a large proportion...
...York "to be near him" while he went to make a speech, urging a Second Front, at a pro-Soviet rally in Carnegie Hall. She was with him just once during a 23-day stay, but that once, she said, involved a three-hour visit to his Waldorf-Astoria bedroom. Back in Beverly Hills, she broke into his mansion one night with a pistol, "intending to kill myself," held the gun for an hour until he talked her into bed again. Admitted by both sides: Chaplin paid her train fare both ways but did not travel with...
...industrious candidate for Vice President last week ingeniously saved himself considerable wear, tear and carfare. As part of his campaign to re-elect himself and resuscitate the New Deal, Vice President Wallace had engaged to deliver a speech at the American Business Congress in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. But few Wallace votes are to be found on Peacock Alley. How reach the rural hearthsides...
...asking. No less than 569 stations flatteringly responded. The $1,200 cost of the records, the New York Herald Tribune learned, was borne by an unnamed friend of Mr. Wallace. Listeners to both speech and record noted that they had been significantly tailored to their respective audiences. Omitted for Waldorf-Astoria listeners, for example, was a recorded assertion that "the present high concentration of investment banking in New York City is itself incompatible with free enterprise, for only large national corporations have access on reasonable terms to that market...
...Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...