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...First we drove to Philadelphia to attend the wedding of one of Spyros' Greek friends. Then we drove to Newark for the funeral of a second one. Between times we stopped off at half a dozen Greek restaurants, in each of which Spyros gave a banquet for a swarm of other friends, assembled on the spur of the moment. We got to Rye all right, but not until late the next afternoon...
...University of Southern California, 34 men solemnly marched into a banquet hall one evening last week for a special commencement ceremony. They were trainmasters, paymasters, auditors and public-relations men. Their ages ranged from 28 to 54. Employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, they had just finished a rugged new six-week course: how to think clearly about the society in which they live...
...fellowship's magazine, Self-Realization, tells the rest of the story. On March 6, Paramhansa told his disciples laughingly, "I have a big day tomorrow. Wish me luck." The next day he attended a banquet at Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel for the new Indian ambassador, Binay
...Hopkins' Economist Clarence D. Long is gloomily aware that his earning power has been steadily losing ground in the endless marathon with rising living costs. As a practicing economist, he is also professionally concerned by "this singular inability of the pedagogue to hold his place at the American banquet table...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...