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After taking this for a while, Furcolo decided he had to squirm out from under this criticism. So in the keynote speech at its annual convention banquet, Furcolo told the ADA to disband. The public thought them pink, he said, and this weakened not only their work but the chances of any Democratic candidate they supported. Things, he confided, would be better for liberals and Democrats if the ADA faded away. And, leaving the convention to choke on its dessert, Furcolo went out to renew his campaign as "the man who repudiated...
Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
Anthony A. Caimt '54, of Philadelphia and Winthrop House, received the William Pains LaCroix Memorial Award at last night's banquet for the varsity and junior varsity football teams, at the Harvard Club of Boston...
Simultaneously, the rest of the squad will be guests at a dinner given by Frank Boland, manager of the Commander Hotel. The banquet is not an annual affair, but it is not unprecedented, Boland stated, "Once before I invited them, in Valpey's regime, when they were all down in the dumps...
...others were later surrounded and captured, had to watch helplessly while one man was forced to swallow a blazing firebrand: "The smell of burning flesh filled the air. Finally . . . he was still and quiet . . . Thank God the man was dead." Clark and the two others were saved for a banquet, but they escaped. The party had expanded along the way, but before they reached the settlement of Iquitos, seven had been killed, and Clark sent his malaria-stricken guide home to Lima...