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...family dinner table, Ros sat opposite a buffet mirror and practiced crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

That night Trujillo was host at a lavish reception in the Mayflower Hotel's Chinese Room and an adjoining ballroom. The decorations included 1,000 red roses; the buffet table was 50 feet long; the service was of gold; champagne bubbled from lighted fountains. "Washington hasn't seen anything like last night for a long time," gushed a Washington Post society chronicler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Flourish & Exit | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

During the afternoon, the graduate schools will hold open house for all visitors, and the reuning classes will return to their headquarters for a buffet supper. The seniors will sup in 'Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grads Brave Rain Threat to Invade County Club, Beaches for Lobsters | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

...afternoon will begin well with cocktails and a shore buffet at the club. Then comes a shore buffet at the club. Then comes a fathers and sons' baseball game, a tour of Gloucester's fishing village, and a square dance at the old from 5:15 to 6, the ever-present buses off again for a beach supper at no by singing Beach. At 10, point be to the square, where the social bee to the square, where the social head quarters of the class will be open at Hasty Pudding and the Union until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '27 Grads Hear Services, Symphony As Four-Day Fiesta Gets Under Way | 6/17/1952 | See Source »

...policy: recruit the Germans as allies. "Our so-called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Rebirth of a City | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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