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...farewell banquet was accorded Financier John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard...
Alumni traditionally hold banquet meetings, to which they invite all the promising, prospective Harvardmen. Lloyd Jordan felt bluntly that money many of these should promise to play ball if they wanted to be prospective Harvardmen. He was wrong. If Harvard is an educational institution, it must make education its only aim; football, as University Hall has stated it, is a complement to education because, as everyone knows, "A healthy body means a healthy mind." But to say, "Charlie, my boy, you'll have time for ball and studies, too," is to say that football to some people can be just...
...friend Nasser has sunk 21 ships, and I wish to God it had been 121." Thus Texas Independent Oil Producer H. P. Nichols hailed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for blockading the Suez Canal. At the annual banquet of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association came more kudos. "As the person who has done the most for West Central Texas oilmen," Nasser was voted the members' "extinguished service" award: a bright pink chamber...
...coach answered his critics in part early last month, at the annual varsity football banquet in Boston, when he decried the dearth of football material at the College. He urged the College to admit "some hard-nosed kids"--presumably of the caliber which would give him a winning football team after two losing years...
...banquet in the Peloponnesian city of Kalamata last week, King Paul of Greece casually broke the first rule of conduct for modern monarchs: he expressed a personal political opinion. Horrified by the slaughter in Hungary, the outspoken King called for a relentless fight against Communism, which he called "the enemy of all humanity...