Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explorers Club in Manhattan invited Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norlcey, co-conqueror of Mount Everest (TIME, July 9), to come from Nepal to feast on American delicacies at its 50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they...
Potter caught up to McCarthy later in the afternoon and demanded that McCarthy call a meeting of the subcommittee. McCarthy refused, said he might be able to get around to it the following week. But that night, after a Republican banquet in the plush Sulgrave Club, the four Republicans caucused informally, and McCarthy said he would talk to Cohn. Next day he reported back: "Roy denies everything categorically. You haven't seen the other part of the story." They agreed that they would meet in the committee's office on Friday, confront Roy Cohn with the report...
After one shocked look at his invitation from Chicago's Irish Fellowship Club to come to a St. Patrick's Day banquet, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell decided that even Irishmen can carry fellowship too far. The scheduled after-dinner speaker: Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). After turning down the bid, Chicagoan Mitchell wrote: "I will not break bread with a man who has borne false witness against over 30 million Americans...
Senator Pat McCarran is not noted for a serene disposition. Last week in Las Vegas, Pat treated President Celal Bayar of Turkey and 100 local notables to a stirring demonstration of temperament. The occasion was a Chamber of Commerce banquet in honor of President Bayar, who is on a good will tour of the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 8). McCarran was a picture of purring amiability until he entered the dining room and took a quick look at the seating arrangements. Then he discovered that he had been seated some distance from Bayar. To make matters worse, Las Vegas' Mayor...
...more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...