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Groan of Ages. Of Charles, as of Shakespeare's Duncan, it was said that nothing in his life so much became him as his leaving of it. Calmly mounting the scaffold outside his own banquet hall at Westminster, the King said, more in sadness than in reproach: "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." When Charles's head was cut off, a witness recalls, "such a groan went up from the crowd as I never heard before, and I desire I may never hear again...
...schoolmate of Lady Bird's, says, "Bird wasn't accepted into our clique. There were 18 of us girls, and we couldn't get Claudia to cooperate on anything. She didn't date at all. To get her to go to the high school graduation banquet, my fiancé took Bird as his date and I went with another boy. She didn't like to be called Lady Bird, so we'd call her Bird to get her little temper going. My mother would call her Cat. She'd say, 'All right...
...That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
Last week the A.B.A.'s 87th annual convention jammed a dozen Manhattan hotels with a lot of strangers, and also three Supreme Court Justices and the President of the U.S. From breakfast to banquet, 7,000 lawyers heard 600 speeches on everything from "Sex and the Single Premium"* to "The Defense of the White-Collar Accused." Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announced a new Office of Criminal Justice to improve criminal procedures and perhaps soften the Department of Justice's reputation as what he called "The Department of Prosecution...
Hammer Blow. Chagall designed the menu for the opening banquet; Miró designed scarves and handed them out to the ladies. Maeght's granddaughters presented the keys to the museum-the first public foundation of its kind in France-to Culture Minister André Malraux on a red satin cushion...