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Kirkland: Cocktails in common room, in the afternoon. Buffet supper. Two dances, with big-name fast and slow bands...
Royals and commoners had a rip-roaring time. Highlight of the pre-nuptial festivities was a wingding for 2,000 guests in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non-vintage champagne and rivers of stronger stuff, the guests twirled and twisted until breakfast. To a man, the roistering royals approved warmly of Alexandra's match. "Thank goodness," whispered one, "she's not marrying one of those awful double-barreled German names...
Choice of Punches. On Lincoln's Birthday, traditionally an occasion for Republican speechmaking, President Kennedy held the center of the stage with an 800-guest White House reception and buffet dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. "Hypocritical," cried the upstaged Republican National Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken...
...inauguration day, Russell promised to "give all our people the opportunity they truly deserve," pledged that "we shall work out our problems peaceably, according to our standards of justice and decency." Later, for the first time in memory, Negroes were invited to mix with whites in a buffet reception on the lawn of the governor's mansion. Several hundred showed...
Trouble was not long in coming. The lights were extinguished and then put on to reveal an eye-catching curtain by Buffet in somber tones-predominantly black, white, blue and ocher. The sets and costumes soon made it apparent that Buffet had succeeded in stripping the usual Frenchified elegance from the opera and restoring some of the wildness of Spain in the 1820s. The 400 or so local fans perched at the top of the house (in "Paradise") began muttering as soon as Tenor Martell sang his first line, started shouting when he nervously hit a clinker...