Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...
...newspaper advertisement: "Wanted, one girl under 21, to get married by Saturday." After interviewing only a few of 253 willing candidates, he chose gangling, 18-year-old Irene Krebbs and married her exactly on schedule before a big crowd at the Frog Hop ballroom...
...roof-garden ballroom of Batavia's elegantly seedy Hotel des Indes, 40 white-suited delegates and aides representing the Dutch, the Indonesians and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia met one evening last week to put the finishing touches on a Dutch-Indonesian agreement. After a quiet 45 minutes in the steamy 90° heat of the ballroom, the business was over. Jogjakarta, the Java capital which the Dutch had taken forcibly from the embryonic Indonesian Republic 6½ months ago (TIME, Dec. 27), would be peacefully returned...
Secret Servicemen clustered about a big mansion on Washington's ornate Embassy Row one night last week like drones attending the queen bee. Inside, in the rococo, tapestry-hung ballroom of Anderson House, the President of the United States sat beaming before a heap of ten-cent-store toys and a big pink and gold cake topped by three candles. He puffed once and blew them out. The 70-odd guests-the Cabinet, some of the Supreme Court, the White House guard and their wives-applauded happily. House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposed a toast (in domestic champagne...
...Route. In Phoenix, Ariz., Howard Lampton advertised in the Phoenix Republic's "Lost" column: "Teeth, uppers near Avalon on South Central; lowers near Riverside ballroom...