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General Simmons spoke on "Health and Manpower in Peace or War" at the banquet of the Third Gulf Coast Regional Conference on Industrial Health...
...attempted to overcome their prejudices. Frederick the Great sat on a balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...
That night the town gave Grandma a 100-place birthday banquet. She easily blew out all 90 candles on her 79-lb. cake, told well-wishers that she felt "no older than I did at 70." Highlight of her day was a congratulatory wire from President Truman: "May the spirit of spring and eternal sunshine be yours always...
...Call-Bulletin for the last ten years, who wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days. The gift: a cable...
...Engelman from one of the episodes in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, tells how pure-voiced Philomela is raped by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who cuts out her tongue to enforce her silence. The sisters get revenge by feeding Tereus the remains of his slaughtered son at a banquet. At that point the gods intervene and change all three into birds-Philomela into a nightingale, whose singing is lovelier than ever...