Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldorf-St. Clair spent 250 grande to make this dumpe look olde...
...suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, Herbert Hoover celebrates his 90th birthday this week with a family dinner. He is the first U.S. President to live so long since John Adams...
...Bridge of Green. Harlem became a place of brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks. Oscar Hammerstein built the Harlem Opera House: it now houses a bowling alley. William Waldorf Astor put up a $500,000 apartment house on Seventh Avenue. Commodore Vanderbilt showed off his trotters on Lenox Avenue. The rich flocked up to Harlem for the summer...
Smiling recruiters from 18 companies will take over 32 rooms in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week to interview more than 600 college graduates. On hand will be personnel specialists from Boeing, Bristol-Myers, Chase Manhattan, Equitable Life, Lever Bros., J. C. Penney, Xerox and other giants. The young men who will get the corporate glad hand are some of the most sought after graduates of the class of '64. They hold a variety of degrees, but they have one thing in common: all are Negroes...
Finding them is not always easy. Manhattan Personnel Consultant Rich ard Clarke, a Negro who organized the recruiting jamboree at the Waldorf, estimates that there are only five Negro graduates available for every 100 management-level jobs open to them. There are 25,000 Negroes among this year's 500,000 graduates, and many of them do not choose corporate careers. For example, 21-year-old Edward Wong, a B-plus graduate from Chicago's Loyola University, had interviews with eight companies but elected to go to law school. Negro students have traditionally opted for such sheltered fields...