Word: ballroom
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...delegation he is "confident of having eleven or more people to sign a minority report if one is necessary." He concludes with an appeal to the press to demand that the Credentials Committee hearings be moved from is present room--too small to allow news coverage--to the ballroom in Convention Hall. Rauh is trying to foil Johnson's efforts to smother the challenge...
That night Wilkins, King, Rauh, Moses, and Henry meet with sympathetic members of the Credentials Committee in the delegates' lounge behind the ballroom. After the highly emotional afternoon session, many Committee members are demanding that the traditional party be thrown out and the MFDP seated. Rauh argues that this is politically unsound. But he accepts a proposal by Rep. Edith Green of Oregon that the minority report specify that a loyalty oath be administered to both delegations...
Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem's once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Anxious to be on their own ways, the delegates cheered their final cheer and cleared out quickly. But Lyndon still had some partying ahead. In Convention Hall's ballroom, 5,000 guests crushed around to wish him a happy 56th birthday, while Comedian Danny Thomas burbled into a mike, "This is just a bunch of happy souls who are celebrating a happy day." It was certainly a happy one for Lyndon. "I've been going to conventions since 1928," he drawled, "and this one is the best one of all." Before a 10-ft. by 6-ft. birthday...
...ballroom of London's Dorchester Hotel was crammed with stuffed beavers, scarlet-coated Mounties, feathered Indians, and R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...