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...only does not require but forbids any detailed accounting to Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic of holiday conversation...
...self-made man who has risen so far and so fast. The Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke and Duchess from U. S. citizens to the White House, the State Department, the Interior and Labor Departments and the National Parks Service. About seven out of ten stressed...
Members of the Freshman unit of the Student Union will dine at 6 o'clock before each discussion. The first two discussions are announced as open to all but the last three will be for members only. The committee in charge plans to throw them open also, if sufficient interest is shown in the reject...
...preparing to deal with the affairs of the Kingdom of God, the General Convention, whose deliberations were to last a fortnight, took its time getting down to business. Bishops and their wives dressed up in their considerable best to dine formally at the Netherland Plaza. Members of the General Convention's lower legislative house, clerical and lay deputies, gazed appreciatively at such convention exhibits as the handsome trailer which is host Bishop Hobson's Cathedral (TIME, April 19), the posters and photographs of the zealous, two-year-old Church Society for College Work, the "barracks" of the hardworking...
...mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than it was, 1,300 people could dine, dance and watch a show on a stage that moved up, down, sideways and around, had so many complicated mechanical gadgets that a last-minute breakdown forced the management to cut the opening show in half. The show itself, like the rest of the International Casino, was on the grand scale...