Word: banqueted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angeles for a round of speechmaking that proved he still had the old political magic: he stopped traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
...Saturday banquet, Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General of the United States, offered his congratulations to the teams. Although he declined to take a side in the debate, Cox emphasized the closeness of the ideological and political functions of the unions...
...boss. Eastern's chief, Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 54, a former Under Secretary of the Air Force (1957-58), will become president and next in command to "C.R.," who is a vigorous 62. Eastern's pioneering chairman, Eddie Rickenbacker, 71, who lately has been more active on the banquet circuit than in the board room, will probably fold his wings. And somewhere, keeping a weather eye on the finances, will be Laurance Rockefeller, 51, who, as Eastern's biggest shareholder (with 94,000 of the 3,235,000 shares), was the driving force behind the merger. Rockefeller will...
...running a restaurant." says the New York City Ballet's Choreographer George Balanchine. "I have to serve a different dinner every night, and I can't overburden the kitchen. But once a year I want to give a banquet." Last week Balanchine served up the biggest banquet of his career to an audience that paid up to $100 a head. The occasion: the premiere of Balanchine's most ambitious ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...banquet honoring the 70th birthday of the father who once wanted him to go into the beauty-parlor-supply business, the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein, 43, won bravos from 800 guests by re-creating a work he had played when he was 13 at his piano debut at Boston's Temple Mishkan Tefila. "At the time," recalled the protean composer conductor, "I played variations of the song in the manner of Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect...