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There was a large banquet that evening honoring Monteux's 75th birthday. Having had experience with banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet...
...seems more than possible that Joseph Stalin survived to trouble the world for at least eight years after a heart attack. Recalling a banquet at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Harry S. Truman wrote in his recent memoirs: "I was seated next to Stalin, and I noticed that he drank from a tiny glass that held about a thimbleful. He emptied it frequently and replenished it from a bottle he kept handy. I assumed that it was vodka, which everybody else was being served, and I began to wonder how Stalin could drink so much of that powerful beverage...
...Slavic smile. "I would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they wooed the great uncommitted mass (1,140,000 sq. mi.) and minds (356,891,-624 people) of the world...
...Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches. Mass produced desks and chairs are an anachronism; more in keeping would be oaken banquet tables and hand wrought benches. Crossed lances and suits of armor would be more appealing than flags and plaques. In keeping with the medieval atmosphere, the psychological laboratories in the basement should become dungeons and the white mice replaced by Social Relations majors on probation...
Yale might not believe that it can afford indefinite expansion, but it seems to have faith in its ability to raise enough money to create Griswold's Athens. Speaking in October at the banquet which launched the Yale Alumni Fund drive for 1955-56, alumnus Irving S. Olds, former chairman of the board of the U.S. Steel Corporation, gave statistics which indicated, he said, that great potential sources of funds have barely been tapped...