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** FILE ** This June 12, 2012, file photo shows actor Tom Cruise at The Friars Club and Friars Foundation at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

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A soup tureen is back home at the Waldorf Astoria, one of many “secretly checked out” items welcomed back by the 129-year-old hotel, many accompanied by fascinating stories. The fruits of the hotel’s amnesty program will be displayed in glass cases in the lobby. (Associated Press)

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A wine coaster is among the dozens of items returned to New York City’s Waldorf Astoria hotel as part of a no-questions-asked, amnesty program. (Associated Press)

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Brigid Brown returned three of the four teaspoons taken from New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel eight decades ago and passed down through her husband’s family. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Obama laugh Oct. 18, 2012, as Romney gets up to address the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. (Associated Press)

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Actor Tom Cruise poses June 12, 2012, after being honored by the Friars Club and Friars Foundation at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. (Associated Press/Invision)

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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel sous chef Josh Bierman inspects honey bees in hives Tuesday on the hotel's 20th-floor roof in New York City. The hotel plans to harvest its own honey and help pollinate plants in the skyscraper-heavy heart of the city. (Associated Press)

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A passerby steps over lines taken down by a large tree, which was blown down by Tropical Storm Irene as it passed through the Astoria neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)