Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal banquet at Brooks House last night, Graduate Secretary Raymond Dennett '36, announced the election of J. Elden Sawhill, Jr., '43, of Lowell House, to the presidency of PBH. Sawhill, who succeeds Harry Newman '42, will be assisted by Robert G. Axtell '43, also of Lowell House...
Frequent tributes to Newman marked the ceremony, the first formal banquet to be held in Brooks House in years. The retiring president himself injected one of the few serious notes into what was otherwise a carefree ceremony, when he confessed his regrets at leaving...
Nominated for the P.B.H. presidency at the cabinet meeting last week were Robert G. Axtell '43, Robert B. Sherwood '43, J. Elden Sawhill '43, and William J. Shea '43. Postcards will be sent out to members Thursday, and the new leaders will take office at the banquet a week from tomorrow...
...banquet for the advertising department he took a swipe at Marshall Field's Sun and at the Tribune's critics ("People-may question our being the world's greatest newspaper. I cannot find they ever suggest any other candidate."). Then he announced that when he dies employes will be permitted to buy his shares (only ten) of Tribune Co. stock and he hoped that eventually they might be permitted to buy a majority of the company's 2,000 shares of stock (estimated value: $25,000 to $40,000 a share...
...single radio job since radio began could unanswerably justify the business of broadcasting as now conducted, CBS's news coverage since 1938 might well be it. But the radio business as now conducted has been challenged by the Government's powerful Communications Commission. An observer at the banquet could note the glint of FCC Chairman James Fly's glasses down the table as CBS's earnest, boylike President William S. Paley, praising Murrow, promised to fight for freedom of the air "no matter whence, nor how subtly or how boldly comes the attack...