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...terrible-tempered man. But this week, portly, pink-cheeked Dr. Schmidt was basking in a Sabbathlike calm. It was the physician's 80th birthday, and a delegation of colleagues turned up, first to give him a reception at Northwestern's medical school library and then a banquet at Chicago's Drake Hotel...
...broad highway from the Zuider Zee topped a beech-trimmed ridge, then dropped into the town. In the growing darkness, the steep-roofed houses spread themselves out in misty brick waves. At the hotel, a man took my suitcase and typewriter, then ushered us inside. A banquet table had been spread across the length of the dining room...
...holding my bags introduced himself. "I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said. "We understand that you have come to see how Marshall help works in our village." With a glance at the banquet table, he added: "I thought you would like to meet some of the people of the town. The Queen's Commissioner will be a little late...
Margaret Truman and her father were guests of honor at the National Press Club's first father-daughter banquet. Billed as the "traveling Trumans," the talented pair played a piano duet of the Jenny Lind Polka, a tune they had first rehearsed when Margaret...
Just the sight of Sawyer in the glittering banquet hall made the N.A.M.s feel better. With his grey hair, rimless spectacles and prim manners he looked exactly like the businessman he once was. When Earl Bunting, N.A.M. chairman, introduced him as "a fellow whose mother probably called him Charlie," Sawyer smilingly set him straight: "My mother called me Charles...