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Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...orchestra. Another advantage is complete lack of announcements, commercial or otherwise, to impede its comfortably spaced flow of tunes. Service is 24 hours a day and all subscribers receive a printed program. Network service costing $25 a month is now taken by such Manhattan spots as the Waldorf-Astoria and Childs restaurants and comes in two types, red which plays dance music steadily from noon until seven a. m., purple which plays light concert music from seven a. m. until 9:30 p. m. and then dance music. Recordings of only the best orchestras and artists are used. Muzak...
Honored. Swiss-Born Oscar ("of the Waldorf") Tschirky, 71, famed majordomo of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 44 years, and his wife, Sophie Bertisch Tschirky, 71; with a dinner party attended by 1,000 people in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary. Toastmaster of the dinner, sponsored by 17 societies of hotel men and gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President...
...President Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...
Crocheting: Fiftyish Editor Mary B. Gates of the Waldorf-Astoria Staff News...