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Expansive Flourish. It was all done in grand style. There was a glittering banquet at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, where Harry Truman looked fondly at Bill Boyle and said: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid (I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced)-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Howard McGrath, in an expansive, oratorical flourish, hailed Boyle as "that eminent lawyer from the state of Missouri, ever devoted...
...Cannes, King Farouk, whose appetite runs to rare and beautiful objects, paid $4,500 for a butterfly collection that caught his eye. Next day, his hotel manager, who happened to hear that the King liked frogs' legs, ordered a special banquet for the royal party: 1,200 legs rushed down by train from Paris...
...Duke of Windsor agreed to make his first public appearance in London since he abdicated nearly 15 years ago. His role: guest of honor at a publishers' banquet celebrating the British edition of his memoirs...
With the release of 100 homing pigeons from its London headquarters and a banquet for more than 1,000 notables, Reuters' news service last week celebrated its 100th anniversary. Since Founder Paul Julius Reuter started the service by using pigeons to carry financial news on the continent, Reuters has grown to be the world's second largest news service (biggest: Associated Press), with more than 3,200 newspaper clients and 2,000 staffers and stringers around the world...
...Paris one night last week, President Vincent Auriol of France sat down to a banquet of boeuf bouquetière in honor of a special group of guests: 41 French schoolboys who had some tales to tell. A few months before, each boy had set out on a solitary journey of thousands of miles with about $45 for the whole trip. For these winners of France's oddest scholarships, dinner with M. Auriol was just one in a long series of adventures...