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Next night the Philharmonic-Symphony directors gave a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, proudly announced they had raised the $500,000 necessary to assure the Orchestra's existence for three more seasons (TIME, April 2). Contributors of more than $5,000: Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, Mr. & Mrs. Felix Warburg, Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann and Columbia Broadcasting System...
...Hearst hatchet was buried nine years ago at an AP annual meeting in Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria, and Hearst-papers now hold 15 memberships. Last year William Randolph Hearst Jr. was elected to the honorable but empty job of an AP vice president. Roy Howard, too, as head of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, made his peace with AP several years ago and now controls six memberships. Last year he visited the Orient at the same time as Kent Cooper, AP's able general manager, and the two were wined and dined together like the best of friends...
Judge Gary was 59 and had been chairman of U. S. Steel for four years when he married Emma Townsend Scott in a private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1905. His first wife, Julia Graves of Aurora, Ill. had died three years before. His bride was 28, California-born, the divorced wife of a picture dealer. They went to the Victorian house with the gingerbread façade shortly after the panic of 1907. There for nearly two decades while he ruled the destiny of Steel, she entertained the kings of industry, the royalty of Europe...
...well he knows, for he delegates little responsibility, enjoys supervising the tiniest transaction. With box-office receipts off $60,000 this season, he said, the deficit would amount to something like $150,000. He and Marshall Field offered to underwrite the campaign, took over a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, engaged a staff of professional money-raisers...
...after the U. S. Army began to fly the mails. Mr. Rogers paid tribute in his daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several times and with that steward...