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Welcome Rebuff? A similar New York snub of Feisal's half brother, the former King Saud, by Mayor Robert Wagner in 1957 nearly precipitated an international incident. But no one appeared overly perturbed last week. The Waldorf rolled out the usual red carpet for the visiting monarch, the 35th-floor presidential suite was made fit for a King, and Feisal appeared content to dine (on cold shoulder?) in his quarters. "I think," said a Saudi official, "the King is above being angered by something trivial like this...
...most popular is Charley O's in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. It is not a pub that any Irishman would recognize but, as Restaurant & Waldorf Associates puts it, "the kind of pub an Irishman might like to open if he came to New York." The owners poked about Dublin absorbing atmosphere, installed kegs of Irish Harp beer on draft in order to create what the owners like to think is "a womb with a brew." Somehow the globe lamps, corned-beef and 5? meatball sandwiches, and stand-up tables seem to have done the trick...
...Waldorf. After Britain, King captured Canada, and then achieved his greatest prominence in the U.S. (the Sullivan show, the Garry Moore program) with curt wisecracks mostly about the sorrows of suburbia: "I really believe my wife collects the garbage from the neighbors just so I can take...
...Rolls and a $250,000 suburban home in Long Island, King knows whereof he piques. "I've been making fun of weddings and bar mitzvahs for years," he says. "Then when my son's turn comes, I turn around and do it worse. It was at the Waldorf. I had a $150 heart-shaped chopped-liver mold. The cook said, 'For $50 more I can make it pulsate.' I had more fun making an idiot of myself...
...last decade, its editors have written foppish editorials scorning the semi-autobiographical short stories produced in undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...