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Rated the country's No. 1 team by an Associated Press poll, and sure of its first undisputed Big Ten Conference title, Northwestern's Wildcats almost justified Coach LYnn Waldorf's conventional prediction: "We are hanging ripe from the bough, ready for the knock-off." Their four touchdowns against Wisconsin's underrated Badgers were just enough...
...Assured by F. W. Dodge Corp.'s Researcher Thomas Steele Holden that U. S. building construction in 1936 will be 50 or 60% greater than last year, members of the U. S. Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group...
...college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit to Felix's--dinner with the Housemaster tonight. The Class very dull...
Some 3,000 pair of eyes were glued on the two chairmen as, each in a natty light brown suit with handkerchief peeping from breast pocket, they mounted the Forum platform in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. The rivals grinned, clasped hands...
While the greatest of modern Chinese thinkers and philosophers, Dr. Hu Shih, Dean of the School of Literature at the National Peking University, was being feted last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the China Society of America and was toasting China's increased political unity, in Shanghai some courageous Chinese cabaret reveler was throwing a pear core at a marching Japanese bluejacket and thus offending the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This culminated a series of "incidents" during the past two months. When mysterious individuals in Chinese costume, possibly disguised Japanese agents provocateurs, then fired...