Word: banqueteer
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...occasion was one of those times when strong men are permitted to weep. "I thank all the people who have been so fine to me-all my friends," said Boston Celtics' Basketball Star Bob Cousy, 34, moved to tears by a crowd of 3,000 at a testimonial banquet in Worcester, Mass. Retiring for a coaching job at Boston College, the Cooze firmly numbered among his friends another athlete-Paul Hornung, 27, Green Bay halfback indefinitely suspended from the National Football League for betting on Packers games. Hornung-present at Cousy's insistence -shakily recalled his own furlough...
...British society gave him access. He sprang the collection on the art world as a stunning fait accompli, and museums everywhere are now vying to show it; Virginia got it first because Mellon is a trustee of the museum and a Virginia resident. The show opened with a banquet for the museum's Collectors' Circle, and the public has been flocking to it since at a rate...
Leverett: Joint banquet with Quincy. Parietals until...
...heavy criticism for shirking her royal duties while drawing a $42,000 yearly stipend from the government. Alexandra, unsubsidized and unstuffy, has filled the vacuum with easy dignity and endearing warmth. On her first, grueling tour of ten Southeast Asian nations, she delighted her native hosts at a state banquet in Hong Kong by proposing the toast in their language-and then confessing in a loud aside: "I'm practicing Chinese in the bath...
Once every two years American Airlines takes over a posh hotel and holds a banquet for its Kiwis, appropriately named for the New Zealand bird that cannot fly. American's Kiwis are former stewardesses who quit to marry or retired gracefully at 32, the age at which American now grounds its girls. Not all of American's stewardesses want to turn into Kiwis. Last week seven blue-suited American stewardesses, all approaching 32 or past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look...