Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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...
...Queens teen, picked Astronaut Gus Grissom, 39, for her private hero four years ago, sent him letters and gifts and kept hoping that one day . . . Now Gus and John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom a pair of square Florentine cuff links and a tie clasp, then burst into tears. No emergency procedures for Gus. He just introduced her as "my Number One fan," gave her his chair...
...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...
Brennan also told the Council that the Waldorf restaurant had hired two Cambridge policemen to survey the restaurant two nights a week between midnight and 3 a.m. These officers he said, had not reported any drug traffic...