Word: waldorfized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What was it all about? Well, it was about a Waldorf banquet for U.S. Representative Charles A. Buckley, 72, Democratic boss of The Bronx. Buckley, best known in the House for his chronic absenteeism, is an old friend of Joe Kennedy's, was an active backer of Jack's presidential candidacy as early as 1957, looks fondly on all Kennedys-and with reason. It was therefore only natural that the President of the U.S. should dictate a telegram to be sent to Buckley in New York on the night of the dinner. It said: "We want to join...
...because it is a kind of tough time to leave Washington, when all the cherry trees and all the Kennedys are in bloom." The introductions that followed were dotted with Hope-isms: "Mr. James C. Hagerty (I remember when he was a caddie at the White House); the Waldorf's Conrad Hilton (a man who is really mixing business with pleasure tonight); Mortimer Caplin (the man who can answer the all-important question, is this dinner deductible?)." After laughter, and Hope, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note...
...Easing through the crush of persons jamming the Waldorf's four reception rooms, Jack Dempsey said: "This is the toughest fight I've had in a long time." When Comedian Milton Berle introduced Mrs. Dempsey to Mrs. Gene Tunney, he said to the Manassa Mauler's wife: "Your husband knows her husband...
...have cleaned up that theater of action in two weeks." Trout & Candles. As the Linen party lasted into the night, a final flurry of preparations was going on in New York. Ready for the tables were 680 handmade, solid-wax candles with a five-hour burning capacity. In the Waldorf kitchens, the staff was preparing 1,800 small brook trout raised specifically in a Long Island hatchery for the appetizer: Truite de Rivière en Gelée à la Muguette. In the ballroom, a team of theater directors and producers rehearsed spotlighting cues for introduction of guests until...
...last moment. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, honeymooning in Venezuela, wired that he knew "those present at this dinner constitute a substantial profile of mid-twentieth century history," then added: "I feel sure that all present will understand why even Harry Luce could not get me to the Waldorf tonight." Congressman James Roosevelt was at his usual Monday night occupation, teaching political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. "Much as I enjoy being a part-time professor," he wrote, "there are times when the line of duty interferes with personal pleasure." Declining his invitation more than two months...