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Birthdays. Irving Bacheller, 75; Oscar of the Waldorf, 68; Mickey Mouse, 6; Dionne quintuplets...
Trailing a thousand different perfumes, an endless procession of women surged through the lobbies of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria last week. They were large and small, handsome and unlovely, most of them middleaged, many of them buxom, and not a few with funny hats. They pushed into the elevators, chattering, fluttering programs, snatching quick glances at themselves in mirrors. The elevator operators knew better than to stop at the mezzanine, where the Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association was in convention. Unmistakably these passengers were headed for the third-floor ballroom and the Conference on Current Problems...
...colleague in this series of lectures, which will be given on November 9 and 16 at 8.15 o'clock in the evening, is a teacher in the Waldorf School at Stuttgart, Germany...
Deane W. Malott, associate professor of Business, will address the New York Herald-Tribune's Fourth Annual Conference on Current Problems at the Waldorf-Astoria this afternoon. Mr. Malott, who has been publicizing the Business School, will talk on "The Young College Man in the Depression." The speech will be put on the National Broadcasting Company's chain. Other speakers at the session will be Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Will Irwin, Glenn Frank, Pearl Buck, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy Thompson, Emily Post, Dr. Stanley King, Miss Frances Perkins, and Robert M. LaFollette...
...avalanche against Shanghai she whelped a towering hero, General Tsai Ting-kai of the deathless 19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed the pier and Chinese drivers of a motorcade of 200 cars pushed down the buttons of their horns, kept them down...