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...Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles...
Chicagoans going to work in the La Salle Street financial district gaped in astonishment at a huge electric sign announcing "Schlitz Buffet" clamped to the façade of the vacated quarters of Central Trust Co., part of Charles Gates Dawes's Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., now being liquidated. The main banking room, decorated with murals illustrating Chicago's history, was equipped with serving counters, tables, a long bar. The grilled iron door which once led to Banker Dawes's office now opens into a lounge...
...with which, quoting a telegram sent to the late President Theodore Roosevelt by the late Dean N. S. Shaler, the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88 opened his address to the Freshmen in the Union last night. Mr. Adams was introduced by Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, following the buffet supper. The other speakers were A. C. Hanford, Dean of the College and the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry...
...Buffet supper at the Harvard Union...
...black tie, he lives in a famed pink house on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette. His particular joys are a ship-cabin taproom and a handsome table that sinks through the floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone last month. A quiet, palm-cluttered, expensive place, where total charge accounts used to run as high...