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Tomorrow morning the reunion class will take a tour of the Law School prior to a buffet luncheon at the Continental. The reunion committee has also acquired a block of seats at the Dartmouth game...
Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...
...Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch...
...BUFFET SUPPER...
...smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...