Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a wise, slightly wicked old cherub, U.S. Representative Charles Anthony Buckley, 71, the Democratic boss of The Bronx, sat in the guest of honor's seat at a $100-a-plate dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. He was immensely pleased-for despite the fact that he is involved in a bitter political battle with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, he heard praise heaped about his head from the top Democrats in the land. Chortled Charlie after it was all over: "Never before in the history of Bronx County have we had such...
...Madison Square Garden rally celebrating his 45th birthday. But mostly he just sat with his son in a garden and chatted. Said Joe Kennedy: "I'd rather talk than walk." Struck for 2½ days by 700 waiters, cooks, bellhops and elevator operators, Manhattan's gilded Waldorf-Astoria bravely carried on. Accountants clapped j together tuna-fish sandwiches as substitutes for halibut thermidor. At a $25-a-plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman...
...Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver-haired Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 59, was expecting even better. To a blue-ribbon business audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, he calmly predicted that in the next two years "an expanding economy will bring sales to an even higher level...
...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...