Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement to come at a corporate Christmas party, but Transamerica Corp. likes to do things differently. As the sound of Jingle Bells faded in a banquet room at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, Chairman Horace W. Brower rose to address 80 of his top executives. Said Brower, 65, who is recuperating from major heart surgery: "I'm pulling out as chief executive Jan. 1. That will give me more time for fishing, for golf and the recovery of my health." With that, command of one of the nation's largest and least understood financial empires shifted...
...poor are waging a bitter offensive against Daley, who has maintained iron control over the $21 million that the city has received so far. Daley's 75-member Committee on Urban Opportunity (chairman: Richard Daley) is securely ballasted in favor of city hall. Last week, presiding over a banquet celebrating the first anniversary of his anti-poverty board, the mayor grandly ignored pickets from the Woodlawn Organization, a militant neighborhood action group, parading outside to protest its exclusion from the parent body. To charges that wardheelers dominate his program, Daley retorted: "What's wrong with the politician...
...hadn't racked up his back in his sophomore year in 1919. Anyway, he'd run pretty well later on, founding Pan American Airways in 1927. Chairman and chief executive officer of Pan Am, Trippe accepted the foundation's 1965 Gold Medal Award at the banquet in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and chuckled: "The selection committee must have gone berserk...
...veal cutlet. He refolded his napkin neatly when he was through. He wore a charcoal herringbone suit, and he buttoned his vest all the way-so only his tailor knew for sure about those 17-inch biceps, that 46-inch chest and that 32-inch waist. But the banquet toastmaster was not fooled for a second. "Gentlemen," he firmly announced, "I give you Superman...
...stabilized with a simple backing of cotton sheeting or tricot. Loose-weave hopsack and tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching and wrinkling, can be just as neat and twice as light if made of bonded single knit...