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Finance Minister Sanroku Izumiyama found it hard to keep his mind on the supplementary budget. Just before a night session of the Diet last week, he expansively invited some 20 fellow Diet members to dine with him. Host Izumiyama, who is 52, turned up a little late, a little drunk. While the toasts were in progress, the Finance Minister, pausing only to hug a couple of waitresses, sat down by Mrs. Haruye Yamashita, 48, a solidly built, mannishly dressed member of the opposition, who had had a couple of drinks herself. Izumiyama wasted no time indicating that...
...time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...music the Darbury Room is fairly cheap, and the Oval Room, with an "All-College Dance," is fairly expensive. For the collegiate atmosphere, with plenty of group singing, etc., the Fife and Drum Room is a good bet, while probably the lowest-priced in the whole field of dine-dance-drink is the Campus Room...
...those who demand more than good food, the Copley Plaza's Oval Room, the Campus Room at the Showboat, and the Fife and Drum Room in the Vendome are but a few of the lusher dine and dance spots...
During the week Louis St. Laurent had sessions with Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and one night they drove out to the Country Club to dine with Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the British Cabinet. This week St. Laurent was going home to Quebec City for a reception worthy of a Prime Minister...