Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consultation with the ringleaders of the end-of-school Blowout discloses plans which we are in an advanced stage. Rumors of a name band (viz. Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Pastor, etc.), a flashy hotel ballroom, and a downright reasonable entrance fee indicate a worthwhile way to spend that all night liberty which is customarily extended the "outcumbents" of NSCS. Should you have some good ideas or contacts, see Bob Grant of Class...
...third and final function is the QM dance scheduled for Saturday evening, May 1, in the main ballroom of the Copley Plaza. Chairman Cadet John Carlisle has secured Ruby Newman and orchestra for the affair...
...British Embassy, where he will live, Anthony Eden's first act was to ask for a glass of orange juice, almost unobtainable in England. He found it delicious. Next day he held a press conference in the Embassy's decorous ballroom, sitting with the tall, bony, high-domed Ambassador, Lord Halifax. Eden, in his inevitable dark suit, looked younger than 45; he grinned youthfully when Lord Halifax called him "old boy." Correspondents found the Foreign Secretary cautious in the fullest diplomatic sense. He hoped that some day it would not be "headline news" when leaders of the United...
Ersatz Beveridge. In London last week, the sun pouring through the windows of Claridge's ballroom illuminated the kindly, beaked old face of Sir William Beveridge, author of the British "cradle-to-grave" social security report,† whose principle Parliament has adopted. Sir William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study...
This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom you'll be able to hear Duke Ellington in more suitable surroundings than at the RKO Boston last week. He can make his own choices there and not worry about theatre managers. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back...