Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started giving parties. She shrewdly gave a yearly alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought Bess Truman's bridge club all the way down from Independence to hear her, threw a big party at the Skirvin Hotel afterward...
...outskirts of Paris one day in 1946, Reeves Lewenthal, a wide-awake young U.S. art dealer, stopped his car, got out and ruefully inspected a flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
...Cambridge there weren't many people around for Cotton Mather's only blowout. Less than one-quarter of the local undergraduate population was on deck for turkey day, and the Annex had a meager...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...
That evening, company foremen were guests at a champagne-confetti blowout at Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, heard a short pep talk: "You've done a damn good job, guys," said President Joseph P. Spang Jr., "but in the same breath I want to say we're still behind on our orders. We want to get that old man's face in every store in the world...