Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York," the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau heard itself say for the eighth straight year, "is a summer festival." As the humidity mounted on the sticky streets, the egregious slogan was resurreced at an air-conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this...
Brand Names Foundation Dinner (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.).* An address by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Pre-empts Face the Nation...
...series of get-acquainted luncheons in his opulent Waldorf Towers apartment. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had hosted every delegation with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations except for the Soviets, and that was only because his Russian counterpart. Valerian Zorin, had stood him up last month when Patrice Lumumba's death was announced. Last week Zorin finally kept the date, and the atmosphere was reportedly ''very cordial...
...Cover) In elegant apartment 42-A of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, servants were busy setting the long, polished table. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was expecting Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin and ten of his aides for lunch. There would be good food, good wines, and, hopefully, over the coffee and cigars, some quiet, profitable talk. But suddenly a Soviet courier appeared with a scribbled, abrupt message. The lunch was off, apologized Zorin, due to the press of unexpected business...
...plate Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller lived up to his reputation as the Republican Party's most dedicated back patter: enjoying himself hugely. Rocky slapped a slew of G.O.P. shoulder blades, even slung an affectionate arm around a handsome new bust of himself (by Italian Sculptor Gualberto Rocchi...