Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show by six veterans, in which the standout painting was Levine's Welcome Home -a satiric study of a beribboned and be-napkined general at a banquet. Explained Levine: "Some officers lived in a world of their own creation. This general has come home and he's still in that sort of a world. I'm not talking about men like Bradley and Eisenhower. I've never seen them but I have great respect .for them. It's just the big slob who is vice president...
...directs the State Department when Byrnes goes visiting London, Moscow, or Paris, Assistant Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson '19, will address the Associated Harvard Clubs on June 4 at the Copley-Plaza. The occasion will be a banquet highlighting the three day meeting of the clubs, the first held in the Boston area in ten years...
...with chopsticks and empty rice bowls through Hengyang or lie exhausted in the gutters, but the city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...
...Barr Peterson '47 was re-elected president of the Glee Club in the annual banquet and business meeting of the Club, held Thursday evening at the Harvard Club of Boston. The group chose Peter Tomkins '46 for the vice-presidential post and Roger S. Kuhn '46 as secretary...
...banquet halls and smoke-filled rooms in Washington and Manhattan, U.S. publishers, editors and newsmen grappled last week with the postwar problems of the press. One was a tough nut that no amount of shoptalk seemed to crack: how to achieve the worldwide free trade in information that would help men know and understand each other? The matter was urgent: the headlines told of censorship trouble in Iran one day, news suppression in Bulgaria the next...