Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incumbent told a large but quiet gathering at the New York Waldorf Astoria hotel ballroom, "I wish Daniel Patrick Moynihan well, because I wish New York well." Buckley said he would "continue fighting for the conservative cause...
...this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef. To put unsung Escoffiers in the limelight-and raise some money-the March of Dimes' New York chapter held a gourmet gala at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. Over hot stoves and chopping boards that ringed the ballroom, 26 contestants from the beautiful, the clever and the famed doggedly demonstrated their epicurean eptitude...
...high-powered talents and egos produced only one notable contretemps. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, steamed up Writer Dena Kaye, daughter of the comedian, by putting her ice cream roll on top of Kaye's Chocolate Mousse Normandy. The sticky situation was resolved by Waldorf chefs finding another refrigerator for the mousse, which survived to win top prize for desserts...
...guests, who paid $125 a head (dancing included) to sample the fare, the Waldorf's chefs did their best to duplicate the celebrity recipes on their own stoves. Diners concluded that some magic must have been lost in the translation. Nonetheless, given the apparent eagerness of notables to display their culinary prowess, celebrity cook-offs could become the biggest thing in fund raising since Girl Scout cookies...
When 1,200 medical researchers assembled at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Sixth International Congress of the Transplantation Society, some of the loudest applause was given not to a physician but to a philosophy professor from Indianapolis. In 1959 the man, John Riteris, now in his early 40s, was stricken by severe kidney disease. Faced with the prospect of imminent death-or dismal years on a kidney machine-he agreed to what was then still a highly experimental treatment: replacement of his dying kidneys with one donated by his twin brother. Now, 17 years later...