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...1930s that debutantes began making larky plunges into show business. Between her debut and her marriage in 1947, Cornelia's mother was briefly a Ziegfeld Girl and a Hollywood starlet with a studio contract. In New York City, cafe society was paying to hear debs sing at the Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels, as well as at a West Side nightclub called La Place Pigalle...
...Winter Garden, disgorging the likes of Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that were more mixed than the drinks. Scarcely a headline writer in New York, it seems, could resist pointing out that Cats was less...
...bright spots last week was Chrysler Corp., which rented a ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to announce that it had earned $106.9 million, its highest quarterly profit in five years. Even though its car sales had slipped slightly from a year ago, Chrysler made money because customers were buying more profitable big models with expensive options...
When Haig joined Begin for breakfast on Friday morning in the Prime Minister's 29th-floor suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, each of the blunt-spoken men knew precisely where the other stood. The previous day, Begin had spoken to Haig on the telephone, telling him that he deeply resented the feeble attempt by the Administration to bully him. For 45 minutes, after their aides had been dismissed, the two men munched Danish pastry, sipped coffee and spoke their minds...
...thing about T. Boone Pickens: nobody ever faulted him for thinking small. "We did not come to town on a load of watermelons," declared the chairman of Mesa Petroleum Co. of Amarillo, Texas (1981 sales: $408 million) from his 39th-floor suite atop New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Pickens, 54, had come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation...