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Tomorrow night we are going to have a time. We are having a pre-commissioning banquet at the Harvard Club. There's going to be a big feed (on plates, too) and then the boys are going to put on a show. I tried to get Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited...
These circus methods, added to Hawley's impatience with slower-witted businessmen; made him into a Minneapolis legend. Stories about him were born, many of them apocryphal. Most apocryphal: Hawley supposedly invited bankers and businessmen to an elaborate banquet. After dining and wining them he stood up and supposedly said: "You guys have probably been wondering for hours why I invited you here. You hate my guts. I hate yours. Well, I'll tell you why I asked you-just to tell you all to go plumb to hell...
Richard Gorlin '46, chairman of the House committee presided over the banquet attended by all Adams...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Mem Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention at the gay banquet in his honor...
...Commissioning Banquet rehearsals went into full production last night as Norm Brown, ex-Dartmouth football star, and that antiquated vaudevillian, Jack Brunner, ran through their act on a certain big industry man and his stooge in the front...