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...Night before at a prededication banquet, Brown had made a major-league booboo by saying smilingly that he looked forward to an all-California World Series between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...opinion. The change was the work of De Gaulle himself. After laying a wreath at the statue of Marshal Foch, France's World War I commander, De Gaulle suddenly turned away from the waiting VIPs and strode into the watching throng, began pumping hands. At his first-night banquet in the state ballroom of Buckingham Palace, De Gaulle displayed unabashed emotion and proud remembrance. Thanking Britain for assuming the burden of war after the fall of France, he recalled the "most precious encouragements" he had received from the royal family. Turning to Queen Elizabeth, De Gaulle said with feeling...
Mellowing in retirement after some 40 years as chief of the United Mine Workers, Unionist John Llewellyn Lewis, 80, was slated to get proof that his former foes, the coal-mine operators, have mellowed along with him. Ready to honor Shakespearean Scholar Lewis at a banquet in Washington this week, the Consolidation Coal Co.'s Board Chairman George Love, acting on behalf of the operators, planned to present Lewis with a rare, 15-volume set of Shakespeare's plays. The books were published in 1793 and purchased from Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who led the U.S. Navy to an epic Pacific victory in World War II, gracefully navigated an epic birthday celebration, his 75th, in San Francisco. At a testimonial banquet, Old Seadog Nimitz happily wore a double lei of red carnations (a gift from the people of Hawaii), licked frosting from his finger, and modestly ducked a salvo of praise. As for a big birthday party: "I feel the same way about it as the man who bought himself a small boat. His two happiest days were when he bought it and when he sold...
...years Fuller has worked at his unusual journalistic job, filling the Sunday News's fraternal page with items scarcely ever more exciting than organizational banquet fare, and hardly ever making Page One. But one Fuller story, a genuine exclusive about the Shrine, recently landed on the front page-and because of it, Shrine bigwigs last week indignantly invited Fuller to turn in his badge...