Word: dining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Correspondent Mead: "As you go from lunch party to cocktail party to late dinner, you realize that these people live more beautifully, possibly, than any people in the world. . . . You go to dine at Count Borromeo's and find that he has discovered an early 18th-Century gold and white vaulted ceiling, uniting five rooms, so he has torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them...
...Hollywood knows that Restaurant LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
...staff family of 15-the regular members of his mess-dine at home nightly. Their day's routine is done, but they stay around to talk after dinner. A half-dozen guests, mostly military, are usually spaced around the dinner table...
Hitler, Göring & Goebbels made a drive for scarce metals, confiscated door handles, hinges, lamps and name plates, made of copper, nickel, bronze, tin and lead, exempted all busts of Hitler, Göring & Goebbels. Last Feb. 15 Joseph Goebbels invited his guests to dine at Berlin's Hotel Bristol. That night the British came, uninvited. A blockbuster crashed square on the hotel. Days later, hundreds of dead had been dug from the ruins. Joseph Goebbels was not among them-he had left on the dead run when the alarm first sounded...
Cleveland's Jack & Heintz (Jahco) last week put their circus touch on lobbying. Bill Jack, Jahco's brass-lunged president, invited 525 Senators and Representatives to dine at his expense in Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. He wanted to: 1) explain Jahco's renegotiation troubles (TIME, Jan. 24); 2) make a proposition...