Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Administration beat the bushes for a successor to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Charlie celebrated his 67th birthday at a dinner party in the gold-carpeted dining room of Wilson's Pentagon suite, beamed as Mrs. Wilson (Jessie Ann) bestowed on him a china caviar bowl and a Christian Dior shirt...
Eggs a la Russe with Caviar . . . southern Bisque . . . Baked Stuffed Filet of Sole Marguery, Parslied Potatoes, Harvard Beets . . . Combination Salad . . . Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie . . . Coffee...
...insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best to sell the Stalinist brand of anti-Catholic Catholicism. But most of the laity and all of the hierarchy stood firm. Today Pax still controls much of its commercial empire and is still in charge of Caritas, the Catholic...
...Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...
...thousand feet up in the Swiss Alps, in St. Moritz' Palace Hotel, 1,000 guests washed down a dinner of caviar and filet mignon with vintage champagne, then danced the night away until 7 in the morning. Among the merrymakers were Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Cinemastars Linda Christian and Hildegarde Neff, Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine, Irish Beer Heir Loel Guinness. As the evening glowed to a climax, roly-poly Winston Churchill II, 16-year-old grandson of Sir Winston, leaped on a table, grabbed a cane, gaily began popping the balloons...