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Bess Truman was down with a cold, so like the dutiful husband he is, the President had dinner at home. But at 9 o'clock he slipped over to Washington's Hotel Statler, and dropped in to make a few off-the-cuff remarks before a banquet of the Society of Business Magazine Editors...
Sometime in March, they will hold their yearly banquet...
...first flush of success after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
...wild welcome dance. Apoena himself, in a breech clout and wooden earrings, stood before Mereiles, addressed him as "Imuman Uazassé" (Patient Father). Gravely, his men handed out gifts of bows & arrows, received in return knives, axes, aluminum pots. A rousing sport carnival followed. Then Apoena gave a banquet during which everybody ate roast deer and grasshoppers from great earthen jars...
...traditionally important ceremony at this banquet in the exchange of flowers between the two Club presidents; sweetheart roses, gift of the Yale Club president and blue violets from the Harvard Club president...