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...more interest than Restaurant Associates. Its 19 restaurants-from the tree-decked Four Seasons to the Lucullan Forum of the Twelve Caesars, from the Italianesque Mamma Leone's to the open-all-night Brasserie -are a successful blend of imaginative showmanship, lofty prices and aspiration to high cuisine. Waldorf System, Inc., is a somewhat different chain of restaurants. Its 83 cafeterias, drive-ins and pancake houses in eight states lean heavily on self-service eateries in poor locations, offer such dishes as hash and an egg for 65?. Last week, in a deal that will produce an unusual corporate...
...Broadway musicals and filed away unused because he had another song he liked better. Now, six months after Porter's death at 71, his publisher, Dr. Albert Sirmay of Chappell & Co., has come on a trove of more than 100 Porter pearls stashed away in his Waldorf Towers Manhattan apartment. Dainty Quainty Me, Dizzy Baby, I Can Do Without Tea in My Teapot and dozens of others should spark the current Porter boom night and day for years. "There is enough material," beams Sirmay, "for half a dozen scores...
...handsome, grey-haired woman from Prove, Utah, stood before a banquet gathering of 1,000 at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and explained that youngsters "expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best...
Before his brief visit with Johnson, Dean Rusk and other Administration officials, Wilson stopped off in New York for some plain talk to what he once called the "gnomes"-the world financiers. Assembled by the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf, they got a Yorkshireman's earful. Wilson began by ribbing those "who have backed with good money" their belief that Britain would be forced to devalue the pound and who are now "licking their wounds, as I warned them they would." He added the neatly cynical point that if he had intended to devalue the pound...
...Central have managed to keep going largely through their non-operating income. The Central still owns much of the land above its right of way along Manhattan's Park Avenue, controls such hotels as the Roosevelt, the Biltmore and the Barclay, and regularly receives ground rentals from the Waldorf-Astoria and the Commodore...