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Then Harry Truman marched into the Sheraton-Blackstone's Crystal Ballroom, faced the overflow crowd and grinned as though he had lived his life for that moment...
...such a vast program, mistakes were inevitable. Courses in bartending and ballroom dancing flourished, as well as "schools" that promised professional degrees (e.g., in architecture) in seven months. By 1948 when the Veterans Administration clamped down, an estimated $500,000,000 had been wasted on fraudulent courses. But the program's achievements far outweighed its mistakes. It sent 10,000 veterans to universities in Europe. It turned out 238,000 teachers, 450,000 engineers, 180,000 doctors and nurses, 113,000 scientists and 36,000 clergymen. In the last six years the average income of the bill...
rich cream sauce ladled on for the other guests), bypassed his baked potato, nibbled at an unbuttered green vegetable, and talked to his photographer dinner companions on subjects ranging from painting to golf. Later, when the lights were turned low in the vast ballroom, the President settled back to enjoy the entertainment, rocked with laughter at the quips of Comedian Bob Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service...
...Drink. At party after party, lean young lordlings were kicking up their heels with the debutante daughters of wealthy tradesmen. It was all high spirits and higher expense accounts. For the showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success...
Welk, who neither smokes nor drinks, lives in Brentwood, Calif, in an eleven-room Spanish-style house (no swimming pool), with his wife-a former nurse-and three children. From TV, Coral Records, the Aragon ballroom and personal appearances he grosses close to $2,000,000 a year at a time when most bands are having trouble. He is happy to pass on his formula to other orchestra leaders: "Just as soon as bands are willing to play for the public instead of themselves, they will have plenty of people ready to dance and listen to them...