Word: waldorf
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...Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
Manhattan is a cluster of villages, and among the 1,000-odd newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...
...Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (Manhattan) was dressed one night this week with smilax, gladiolas, palms and fine napery, as it is almost nightly for conventions of furriers, bankers and the like. Guests were a national collection of Republicans assembled by the New York political club of that name to pay off its debts (at $25 a plate) and perform an act (hooked up to the nation by radio for two hours) called "Victory Through Unity." All the newly-elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several...
...Lincoln's Birthday national demonstration will center in New York, where Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, will address a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria on "Racial Theories and the Genetic Basis of Democracy...
...with the Chicago Cubs (Bartell, Leiber, Mancuso for Demaree, Jurges, O'Dea) at the minor-league meeting the week before, the Giants paid the Washington Senators $20,000 (plus two players) for hard-hitting Zeke Bonura. then picked up a few more players in the lobby of the Waldorf. Most outstanding trade of the week was the Detroit Tigers' acquisition of Pitcher Freddy Hutchinson, 19, of the Seattle Rainiers (Pacific Coast League) for a reputed $50,000 and four players...