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Harry Truman had planned an unhurried week, devoted to studying Congress' last minute legislation. There was one break in his schedule. He went up to Capitol Hill for an informal buffet luncheon in the office of Les Biffle, director of the Senate's Democratic Policy Committee...
Young Henry Ford gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
...McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent so far as to lead the family in carols around the piano...
Lunch in Kirkland House will follow the formal exercises, and then the Varsity nine will move onstage when it tackles the visiting Yale squad at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. A buffet supper in Kirkland, a concert by the Orchestra and Glee Club, and informal dances, in Winthrop and Kirkland Houses will round out the crowded day. Tickets for the supper, concert, and dance will be sold separately, reversing previous procedure...
Yale will provide the opposition for the Varsity baseball team at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field and a buffet supper in Kirkland House, also at $1.50 a head, will be followed by a concert by the Glee Club and Band. An informal dance in Kirkland House will top off the evening. A change in plans permits purchase of tickets for the concert alone...