Word: waldorf
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...hurried political expedition into New York City last week, Texas' Senator Lyndon B. Johnson all but bumped into Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, who had slipped away from his seaside vacation retreat at Hyannisport, Mass, to do some New York politicking himself. Just as Kennedy headed into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, by long-shot coincidence the car bringing Johnson from the airport pulled up at the entrance. Johnson strode indoors so fast that he did not even see Kennedy, but Kennedy saw Johnson, and let out a startled semi-shout: "What's that guy doing here...
Some nine years after he was removed from his Far Eastern Command, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, is still a most respected U.S. citizen in Japanese eyes. In his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers last week, MacArthur received a Japanese diplomat, who gave the old soldier the highest decoration that Japan ever confers upon a foreigner who is not a head of state: the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers. Said MacArthur: "I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished...
...York in the black, and scoffing at Republicans and Democrats who warned that he was vastly underestimating revenue, Rockefeller acknowledged that New York is on the brink of a $90 million budget surplus. That being the case, said he at a crowded G.O.P. $100-a-plate Waldorf dinner. New Yorkers can look forward to a 10% cut in state income taxes in Election Year...
...that his accomplishments are more acoustic than academic. University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse, had his right leg amputated two years ago, is too frail to under go the ceremonies in New Haven. At week's end, Yaleman Porter got an accolade at the Metropolitan...
...little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor...