Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night last week, Tom Storke's subjects crowded into the ballroom of the neo-Spanish Santa Barbara Biltmore for a testimonial dinner for their cantankerous king. For his "defense of civil liberties," for being the first to raise an editorial fist against the Birchers. Editor Storke received the Richard E. Lauterbach Award from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. He heard congratulatory messages from all over the U.S.. among them one from an admirer named John Kennedy (who praised Storke's "sturdy conviction and judgment''). "For 61 years I've been dodging brickbats." said...
...Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally kissed his granddaughter good night, steered Lady Churchill into an elevator and headed for home, 57 minutes behind schedule...
Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...
Filming the ballroom scene at Tregaron, he barked his guttural directions from the camera boom. "Stop talkink!" he screamed at the milling mob, which included Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop"') Jackson and Washington Hostess Gwen Cafritz. When a waiter looked at the camera, he thumbed him "Oudt! Und keep valkink!" When another smiled, Preminger tossed him oudt too. A magazine photographer got in the way, and Preminger fumed. "But I'm from Look!'' cried the lensman. Stormed the Director: "You LOOK! Get oudt...
...Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, 53, donned an outsized fez to preside over Yankee Stadium festivities of the 62nd annual Negro Elks' convention. Next day, at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, the Governor passed the fez-to his eldest son, Rodman, 28, who strode to the Grand Ballroom dais and invoked 2,000 delegates of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order with the salutation, "Brothers and daughters...