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...plant's control room last week, Premier Duplessis pressed a button to start a 45,000-h.p. generator. Nodding at it and the other big dynamo, he shouted to McCormick: "Do you think they produce more light than the Chicago Tribune?" The colonel chortled appreciatively. Later, at a banquet in the Manoir Comeau the Premier, himself a man who knows his own worth, told 215 guests: "We're somewhat alike, the colonel and I. We're both criticized, but we both do some good work...
...record crowd (750) at the Portland banquet waited expectantly, through 30 pages of a Morse speech, to hear the rumor confirmed. But the Senator confined himself to belaboring the Eisenhower Administration and raking the public-power policies of Oregon's No. 1 Republican, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. The audience cheered most loudly when Morse pledged allegiance to his hosts. "Liberalism in the Republican Party," he declaimed, "is dead. In 1954, I will campaign for the Democrats...
...Pusey remembers as the most frightening night of herl ife, the first time Pusey went to Milwaukee to address the Lawrence alumni. He had expected a small group sitting around a table, informally taking over the college. Instead he found a huge banquet room with hundreds of guests expecting a prepared and polished speech from the new president. He had none, but only he and Mrs. Pusey realized it. "We often think," she says, "if we could get through that night, nothing else would ever be too difficult...
...Pusey remembers as the most frightening night of her life, the first time Pusey went to Milwaukee to address the Lawrence alumni. He had expected a small group sitting around a table, informally talking over the college. Instead he found a huge banquet room with hundreds of guests expecting a prepared and polished speech from the new president. He had none, but only he and Mrs. Pusey realized it. "We often think," she says, "if we could get through that night, nothing else would ever be too difficult...
Jackets to Jeans. The Crestubilee got under way at a big banquet in the high-school gym, beneath a giant, school-painted mural of Waikiki Beach. After dinner the basketball floor was cleared and a band, imported from Des Moines, struck up. At 11 p.m. everyone proceeded to the Uptown Theater for a "Hollywood First Night." Searchlights probed the sky and more than 1,000 Crestonians pressed against the ropes and ogled the kids as they went up the blue carpet past photographers and radio interviewers to see a Technicolored musical, The Girl Next Door...