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...traditional toast had just been proposed: "Prosperity to the public purse and health to the Chancellor." At the annual banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 200 of London's leading bankers and merchants & their wives got to their feet. The toast drunk, Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell (whose health was fine) responded with some distressing news about the prosperity of the public purse: Britain's dollar deficit for the third quarter of 1951 was 638 million. The audience gasped. A deficit was expected, but not this much. It was the worst financial...
There was a second Bill Boyle banquet in Kansas City. The President, the Vice President, four Cabinet members and most party bigwigs, including Jim Finnegan, were all there too. So was Kansas City Gangster Charlie Binaggio (who was riddled by bullets seven months later in a Kansas City Democratic clubhouse). Another expansive guest was American Lithofold's ubiquitous Robert J. Blauner. He paid for a whole table. It cost him, he told the Senate committee, "a thousand or twelve hundred dollars-I don't remember...
Because of his brother's illness (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Duke of Windsor canceled his scheduled speech to a London booksellers' banquet celebrating British publication of his memoirs, but the Sunday Express gave its readers the text anyway. Said the Duke: "It seems in the eyes of some that in writing it I have done something very terrible. It was Job, I think, who in the depth of his misery, exclaimed that he wished his enemy had written a book . . . Gentlemen, Job was dead right . . . If you've a grudge against anybody and want...
...Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME, May 15,1950), was there too. It portrayed Christ as a tiny figure at the top of a pyramid of grinning masks, so shocked Ensor...
...which, like the rest of the movie, score as high in imagination as in lavishness. Notable example: the costumes for a tumultuous Beaux Arts Ball, which would tempt most moviemakers into a rainbow splurge, are all black & white. The effect, striking in itself, is the perfect aperitif for the banquet of color that follows in the ballet...