Word: waldorf
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...respects of the President, the Secretary of State, the Lend-Lease Administrator, the Librarian of Congress and the British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...
...most glamorous convention, U.S. industry voiced its deepest hopes and fears last week-just in time, before Japan put an end to talk. The 46th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was the best attended Congress (over 5,000) in N.A.M. history. It was also the first N.A.M. Congress in almost a decade whose deliberations seemed in step with the times...
...about 2 a.m. in the Palm Room at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. For four hours various jazz musicians, drifting in from the hotspots, had been showing a roomful of bigwig musicians and assorted guests that jazz is serious. At the moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler...
Only commercial station in the country that devotes 80% of its broadcasting day to classical music, WQXR needed some such catalyst as a mad night" at the Waldorf before it could go the whole way in recognizing jazz...
...limousine he rode in broke down twice. She said she hadn't been in a dress shop since May 1940, denied that she bought 34 hats at Bergdorf Goodman. She beat him at a game of darts when they played at the Seamen's Church Institute. The Waldorf-Astoria said he made his own breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United...