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...life. He worked a full day at the university, stayed up late polishing a speech he would make the following evening. Next morning. Dean Johnston went by the campus to catch up on his paperwork, drove to Boulder for a Colorado State Bar Association meeting, stayed on for a banquet of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He delivered the banquet address, at meal's end accepted the usual congratulations. Then on the night of April 25, 1958. William Johnston, who had suffered two previous heart attacks, clutched at his chest, collapsed and died...
...women and 37 of their husbands who gathered in the banquet room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel did their best to ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors from the men's bar on one side and the smell of champagne from the elegant Garden Court on the other. Loud and often, they drowned out the sound of what they feared was drunken babbling by raising their voices in song...
...interested in your article about General Taylor but was surprised to read that he and President Kennedy had never met. I recall the General spoke at a Veterans of Foreign Wars banquet in Boston at the Sheraton Plaza in 1946, which Mr. Kennedy attended [see cut]. They were well acquainted at that time...
...committed one whopping gaffe, though. At the banquet, he4JESSICA TANDY as Lady Macbeth and PAT HINGLE as Macbeth...
...mended its offenses last week. After inviting the visitor back to town (just before his departure to become High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's), Mayor Winslow F. Burhans met the police-escorted motorcade at the city limits, later honored the colorfully draped Fitzjohn at a banquet attended by 200 of Hagerstown's most prominent citizens, including 30 Negro couples. Also gracing the town's first mixed social event in memory: a hand-sewn Sierra Leone flag quickly Rossed together by the mayor's wife-an appropriate gesture in an area just 25 miles...