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This year, in the exhibition which opened at the Waldorf last week, everything submitted at curtain time had been accepted. Many of the paintings would hardly, however, be seen elsewhere than at the Independent's tableau. Wandering through the labyrinth of cubist, futuristic, abstract, satirical, constructionistic, or caricaturistic themes, spectators were impressed with the thought that each of these artists had expressed himself with no fear of jury. To be seen were...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
Nonchalant, His Royal Highness took a six-room suite at the Waldorf, paid for it a week in advance, then left for a week-end visit at Pawling, N. Y., with a fellow explorer-huntsman, Lowell Thomas, partial biographer of Britain's mysterious hero of the Palestine campaigns, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (TIME, July...
They give their chambermaids severe instructions. Nevertheless, other Manhattan hotels were envious when, last week, mice were reported in the Waldorf-Astoria. For one thing, these mice were dead. For another, they were, as mice go, famed. They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that...
...Harvard is puzzled by the commissary problem," Mr. Roth said to a CRIMSON reporter, "the industrial division of Waldorf Incorporated will gladly offer the services of one of its representatives to study the situation and offer a solution. I do not mean that we intend to enter the CRIMSON contest but that we would like to have on expert on feeding problems offer his opinion...