Word: waldorf
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...this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef. To put unsung Escoffiers in the limelight-and raise some money-the March of Dimes' New York chapter held a gourmet gala at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. Over hot stoves and chopping boards that ringed the ballroom, 26 contestants from the beautiful, the clever and the famed doggedly demonstrated their epicurean eptitude...
...high-powered talents and egos produced only one notable contretemps. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, steamed up Writer Dena Kaye, daughter of the comedian, by putting her ice cream roll on top of Kaye's Chocolate Mousse Normandy. The sticky situation was resolved by Waldorf chefs finding another refrigerator for the mousse, which survived to win top prize for desserts...
When 1,200 medical researchers assembled at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Sixth International Congress of the Transplantation Society, some of the loudest applause was given not to a physician but to a philosophy professor from Indianapolis. In 1959 the man, John Riteris, now in his early 40s, was stricken by severe kidney disease. Faced with the prospect of imminent death-or dismal years on a kidney machine-he agreed to what was then still a highly experimental treatment: replacement of his dying kidneys with one donated by his twin brother. Now, 17 years later...
...delegates' hotels are scattered up and down Manhattan, ranging from the Waldorf Astoria at $47 to $66 a night for a double, to the Abbey Victoria at $30 to $33. Early on in the primary season, Carter's forces had been booked into the City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...Plains (see color facing page) to a busy round of highly successful fund-raising affairs. They included a $1,000-per-couple lawn buffet in a tent in Asheville, N.C.; a $250-per-plate breakfast in Milwaukee; a $100-per-person cocktail party in New York's Waldorf-Astoria. He made similar stops in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston and Chicago. The net result: Carter wiped out his remaining $400,000 primary campaign deficit and expects to go into the convention with an extra $400,000 to cover expenses there...