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...skill, and, more important, the clean which distinguished the Harvard toot ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk on the Decline and Fall of the Glockenspiel...
...banquet the night before he left, Holland offered a rich, buttery toast to Peron: "A great American, a great Argentine-" Peron ordered out his personal DC-4 to take Holland to Chile, and the Peronista press wrote: "We received Mr. Holland with a question. His attitude these past three days has been a full and satisfactory reply...
Corn from Clem. At the big banquet, in the hot, stuffy Shriners' Murat Temple, Adlai Stevenson, the principal speaker, sweated like a Fourth of July orator. His speech somehow missed the mark with the 1,000 Democratic diners, although Adlai had tried to cut it to their measure. "The Republican Party is so deeply split," he said, "that it cannot pursue consistent policies anywhere . . . Drift, division and demoralization have for 20 months obscured American purposes, discredited American leadership, and heightened the perils and tensions in this tense and perilous world at home and abroad...
Attlee, made a ritual of rising, walking along the table to clink his glass in gracious courtesy with each delegate. He toasted world peace, Anglo-Chinese friendship, Queen Elizabeth. Chou even attended a banquet given by British Charge d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan, whose very presence Chou had ignored for more than a year...
...tourists then flew on to Shanghai, Red China's biggest city, which Attlee said reminded him of London. At a great civic banquet, Clem Attlee toasted "the stabilization of world peace," and added, "Like you, we ardently desire to promote peace . . . The more you get to know people, the more you find things on which you agree." He was heartily in favor of more East-West trade. More skeptical newsmen, however, taking a look around Shanghai (where the British once had several hundred million dollars invested), found the few remaining British businessmen desperately consenting to all kinds of confiscatory...