Word: waldorf
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...been occupied by the Army during the war, was later renamed the Conrad Hilton), the world's largest hotel, and Chicago's esteemed Palmer House. The deal that gave him the greatest satisfaction and made him the nation's leading hotelman came when he made the Waldorf-Astoria a Hilton hotel...
...Herbert Hoover, 88, condition serious, "due to anemia secondary to bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract," at home in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment; G. Frederick Reinhardt, 51, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, hospitalized in Rome with an ulcer and low blood pressure; Republican Clarence J. Brown, 67, Ohio's senior Congressman, suffering "a severe back strain," abed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 53, with mild stomach ulcers, abandoning all engagements in favor of rest and diet, at her summer residence, Fredensborg Castle...
Kennedy's 1½-day New York trip also had its less stirring political moments. Some 600 business and professional men and Democratic notables, calling themselves the President's Club, chipped in $1,000 each to throw a birthday party for Kennedy at the Waldorf-Astoria. He would not be 46 for six more days, but it was a good excuse to come to the aid of the Democratic Party's chronic deficit with an estimated $600,000. During the dinner, a smiling Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair...
...grabbed someone, at any rate, being the key line in a one-minute television commercial that last week won "Recognition"' status in the fourth Annual American TV Commercials Festival. More than 1,200 anxious admen collected in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to hear the list of winners. But it was not just a list. It was a galactic catalogue of categorical triumphs...
...four years, the American TV Commercials Festival has become so popular that it could be described as an advertising man's Cannes. It costs $20 to enter a commercial, but 1,367 were entered this year. Luncheon tables at the Waldorf go for $250 each...