Word: waldorf
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...awed by the tumultuous Broadway parade as his motorcade inched through 4,000,000 roaring, swarming New Yorkers in a blizzard of ticker tape-3,474 tons of paper that buried Douglas MacArthur's 1951 record downfall of 3,249 tons. There was the inescapable luncheon at the Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite (to minimize the static electricity) and assembled at the blast of a trumpet-the gift...
...Lucania), 64, a classic hoodlum: of a heart attack; near Naples. Sicily-born Luciano rose from New York's Lower East Side to become overlord of the city's gangsters and whores, had hundreds of police on his payroll and held court in his suite at the Waldorf Towers, beat the rap for gambling, narcotics, assault, grand larceny, bootlegging and driving without a license, until he was brought to book by young Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in 1936 and sentenced to 30 to 50 years for compulsory prostitution. Said Lucky, years after he was paroled...
...Guinnesses have an apartment in Manhattan's expensive Waldorf Towers, a villa in Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plies the summer Mediterranean, a seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected...
Albiani's alone remains untouched. Even before the walls of Waldorf's sprouted abstract, wrough-iron nudes, and the quaint ugliness of the Bick underwent renovation, this cafeteria could afford the most modern facade on the square. Hayes-Bick and Waldorf's have unjustly overburdened the Cambridge consumer. If Albiani's, with its admirable ratio of empty tables to people manages without a minimum, so can the other cafeterias...
...sort of programme the Telepix has been serving up all fall. Our own Brattle has fallen on evil days. Glutted with ten-month old "revivals" like Our Man in Havana and larded at either end with saponaceous strains of Muzak, our once beloved theatre sounds like the Waldorf until the lights go off, and from there on out there's little to do but yawn and beat it as the projectionist trots out either second-rate foreign films like Rosemary or recently produced box-office certainties like Orfeu Negro...