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Elegant & Eccentric. Last week, on the occasion of Cleveland's 50th anniversary, Lee looked like a Caesar back from the pillage of some artistic Carthage. Presiding at a candlelit banquet for 275 guests and trustees, he displayed a trophy case filled with 159 new acquisitions, valued at some $5,000,000. For sheer size, scope-and elegant rapacity -the booty was unparalleled in U.S. museum history...
...stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still gorgeous. The Kys and the Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over. And as President Marcos led Madame Ky, while Ky squired Imelda, Malacanang Palace rocked until 1 a.m. to the twist, the frug and Tahitian beats...
...Colonial Secretaries could keep track of their far-flung charges. A lady at a London banquet in 1852 once asked Colonial Secretary John Pakington where the Virgin Islands were. He is supposed to have replied imperiously: "As far as possible, my dear lady, from the Isle of Man." A President of the Orange Free State in South Africa reported his experience in 1876 with another Colonial Secretary who "unfolded a pocket map and begged that I would point out to him where the Orange Free State...
...Hague last week, Finance Ministers and central bankers from ten nations paused during a two-day conference on international monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debr...
...survivors." Together they make up the generation of the middle years, of the flexible mind, the resilient spirit and the high heart. It has the assurance of having been tested and not found wanting. In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life. It is invisible because it defies chronology. It measures age not by a date on a calendar but by a dance of the mind. Just prior to last week's marriage of Frank Sinatra, 50, to Mia Farrow, 21, Mia's mother Maureen O'Sullivan...