Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a smiling, muscle-clutching reunion with an old wartime friend, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines flew off to a banquet in Phoenix, fell victim to feckless staff work in ad-libbing a surprise, honor-giving speech for Arizona Newsman Fritz Marquardt. Said Garcia: "I would like to award a decoration to one who has done a great deal for the Philippines: Governor Ernest McFarland." Democrat McFarland sat by red-faced as an aide rushed up to announce that the award was meant for Marquardt. Leaping after the fumble, Garcia failed to clear...
...western gun toters-a movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...
...Track Banquet last night, annual improvement awards went to James J. Doty, Joel R. Landau, and Gordon...
...tither; i.e., he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said Van: "God give us his grace and power to make good...
...state this categorically," said white-tied Richard Nixon to a banquet of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. "There will be no depression in the United States...