Word: waldorf
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...Foilswoman Helene Mayer of San Francisco, German refugee: the women's national fencing championship; for the seventh time; winning all five bouts and yielding only four touches along the way; at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Only fencer able to alternate touches with her for even a brief spell was Manhattan's Helena Mroczkowska, who tied for second place with three wins, two losses...
Cairo, Singapore and Australia, the citation said, "were remarkable for their ac curacy and their courage." After giving the audience (on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria) a little col or on the sinking of the Repulse -the orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense...
Litvinoff's Plea. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, at a celebrity dinner of the Overseas Press Club, Maxim Litvinoff stood up in white-tie-&-tails to make his first public address as Russian ambassador. Round, homey Maxim Litvinoff spiced his speech with American colloquialisms, with an easy, audience-catching humor. But the speech was grave. Maxim Litvinoff pleaded...
...Publishing Co., who also owns Alco-Gravure, world's biggest rotogravure printers, which makes a "modest" profit printing This Week. Its editor is Mrs. William Brown Meloney (mother of Novelist William Brown Meloney), 59, tiny, fragile, grey-haired, who now edits the magazine from her suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. In her 40-year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer of the Herald Tribune Forum, and once in three interviews with Mussolini got him to answer eleven out of 20 questions. She declares with flashing defiance...
...annual protest against New Deal labor policy was not, for once, the cry of the alone to the alone. As though for N.A.M.'s special benefit, Howard Smith's strike-control bill passed the House on the first day of the convention. When Smith appeared at the Waldorf next day, he was given an ovation. The challenging power of the unions, always N.A.M.'s chief concern, was still the favorite topic in the corridors. The Congress also refought some other old N.A.M. ideological wars: bureaucracy, Government spending, the public debt, "unwise taxation" (N.A.M. wants a general sales...