Word: waldorf
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...soldiers' families trying to get home from Florida debarkation camps, soldiers crowding North for brief furloughs. While civilian experts for the Army & Navy cooled their heels in Miami, the Miami Herald's society columns blossomed with items about debutantes shuttling North for a week at the Waldorf and then South again for such matters of state as "parties preceding the marriage of a college roommate." ODT finally could no longer ignore the mess, ordered two extra trains daily from Florida to New York. They will be ancient, all-coach, no-reservation jobs - and they pot be permitted...
Last week, in her apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 68, died of a heart attack...
...Farley, daughter of Jim, made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
...prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
Jimmie formed a band for "gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...