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...Sought the Young. Most of those who came to hear Taft's speeches were comfortable, middle-aged people. He sought out the younger and the not so comfortable, wherever he could find them. In Spokane, where he talked to 3,000 at a Chamber of Commerce banquet, he also answered students' questions at the Jesuits' Gonzaga University. From a dim back corner of the gymnasium, a student shouted: "Senator Taft, do you favor sending an ambassador to the Vatican?" Taft had a prompt reply. "I don't believe a formal ambassador is necessary," he said...
...Frank Sedgman was not for sale, after all. Last week at the banquet celebrating Australia's Davis Cup victory (TIME, Jan. 7), Sedgman borrowed tuppence from his coach, Harry Hopman, and put through a phone call to Sydney's Daily Telegraph to make an announcement: he was going on as an amateur...
Meanwhile, Captain Tom Hamilton, athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh, who allegedly made Jordan the offer of the job while the two were going by train to Cincinnati, was also unavailable, although he was paged at a baseball banquet which he was supposed to be attending...
When the Democrats left the banquet hall, the newsstands were already piled high with Tribunes carrying McCormick's counter punch. From the eminence of a Page One box (next to the report of McKinney's speech), Bertie McCormick jabbed: "The Tribune during the last two days has shown McKinney up as a crook. He has tried to muddy the water by telling lies about the Tribune...
...head table in a banquet room of Baltimore's Hamilton Street Club one night last week, a spry, white-haired man of 83 rose, smiling and nodding, to acknowledge the cheers and applause of the guests who had come to honor him. Robert Williams Wood was in his soth year as a full professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the brightest names in the scientific world wanted to help celebrate the occasion. Albert Einstein had written to pay his respects, Niels Bohr had cabled from Copenhagen, Robert A. Millikan, Harlow Shapley and Karl Compton all sent messages...