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This column would also like to publicize another item of interest. Plans for the Pre-Commissioning (or, Goodbye to Harvard, hello Sampson) Banquet are rapidly being formed. Entertainment is at present being quietly solicited. Jack Brunner, who evidently favors tennis courts to ballrooms, will be there with his guitar. Croonin' Huddy Futral promises to give the boys a tune. (Futral--the deflated Sinatra). A whole host of talent will be there...
...banquet on Friday night, probably at the Parker House, will open the conference, with Senator Harold H. Burton, Republican sponsor of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill bill, and Dean Mildred Thompson of Vassar College talking to the group. Dean Thompson has just returned from London, where she studied England's advances in education as a member of the Fullbright Commission...
Interloper? Thrice married and twice divorced, "R.J." gathers his previous wives, their five children and his present wife's three children by a former marriage, for a Christmas banquet each year. It seems to come off amicably. Besides running his 1,050-acre plantation like a patriarch, he has dabbled in politics with more expense than success. In 1942, he roamed the state providing lavish free meals and exhibiting his flowing locks and friendly grin to the populace, came within 200 votes of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. Since then he has established an anti-New Deal...
...family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...packed in food until we thought we would burst and managed to wade through five races, photographing as we went, but we caved in before the Tatar banquet...