Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Pierian Sodality, and Music Department honored Malcolm H. Holmes '23 last night at a Faculty Club banquet. He is retiring after 26 years with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to take on new duties as Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music...
...when called upon to speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen said in a clear, ringing voice, "Si yo quiero" Following an old Spanish custom, the cardinal presented her with 13 pieces of silver (worth about $450), a gift of the bridegroom. Then the 800 guests moved on to a sumptuous banquet in the palace...
...annex to the student union building rose, complete with bowling alleys, music and art rooms, banquet hall, barbershop, cafeteria, lounges, student-activities offices and hotel rooms for visitors. Near by, six new dormitories went up, along with eleven low-rent apartment houses for faculty members. A modernized stadium echoed with the yells of 60,000 Michigan State football fans, There were also new buildings for electrical engineering, agriculture, physics and mathematics, and general science...
...been known to wear a tie only half a dozen times in his life. On one occasion he wore a tie to a baseball writers' banquet in Boston simply to cross up the reporters; a friend had assured him that they had already written their stories and reported him tieless...