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This week it was B.'s boy himself who could feel proud. In his honor some 2,000 Columbia alumni from far & near traveled to Manhattan to gather in the Waldorf-Astoria for the largest dinner they or the hotel had ever given. It was the fourth annual "Round-the-World-Columbia Night." broadcast this time over 81 U. S. stations and to the rest of the world over two short-wave stations. Similar dinners were also taking place in Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva, Mexico City, Havana, Moscow, Manila. Aboard the 5. 5. Resolute off Bombay...
...Waldorf's Astor...
...volumes, 1.353 carefully documented pages, Researcher Porter has stored all the available facts about the first & greatest of the Astor dynasty. Born the son of a butcher in the little German village of Waldorf, John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) became "first business man in America to attain colossal wealth." Author Porter considers him preeminent in his period, says: "Indeed it is doubtful whether in the art of buying and selling he has ever been approached, much less surpassed...
Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building...
...construction of a U. S. canal? After a re-examination of all available evidence Biographer Pringle concludes that he did not directly plot the uprising but that he was "extremely well informed" as to the conspirators' plan. The Panama Republic was cradled in Room No. 1162 of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Bent on selling the French franchise to the U. S., Philippe Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell buzzed often and loudly about the White House. President Roosevelt, primed, recognized the new order with ''indecent and unwise haste." When the Indianapolis News, backed by the New York World suggested...