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...countess from Germany, and a bonnie lass from Scotland with her own bagpiper. But the queen was Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 18, daughter of Ike's only son, retired Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and Wife Barbara. The scene was the 13th Annual International Debutante Ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, graced by 62 young ladies from 16 countries and 17 states and the District of Columbia. As usual, second-generation Republicans seemed to have a lock on the proceedings. Barbara Anne was escorted by her brother David's Amherst roommate, Don Stolper, and David himself was there...
...Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including one to raise funds for Spanish Harlem...
Addressing 3,500 guests during the annual Al Smith dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria last week, Ambassador Goldberg enjoined them: "In this debate, let us shun intolerance like the plague. As our sons and daughters would say: 'Let's cool...
...band at the Waldorf-Astoria...
Blood & Money. The heaviest support came, naturally, from the 5,720,000 American Jews. At a luncheon meeting in New York's Waldorf-Astoria on the day the fighting started, $1,000,000 a minute was pledged during one quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood...