Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Luce [March 10] only one time, in India at the World Council of Churches meeting in 1961. He had been invited by a minister of the Indian government to a dinner for Billy Graham. The food was simple, but the conversation was rich and illuminating. The most unforgettable part of the occasion was Mr. Luce. His face spoke volumes, his manner and bearing made an indelible impression. I was overwhelmed by the fullness of his words and the vast range of his knowledge. He questioned the government official about Gandhi, food and the Sikhs. He made incisive remarks about...
Kennedy treated his differences with the President in a lighter vein at the dinner given by the Gridiron Club. It is supposedly off the record, but its better lines quickly circulate through Washington. The Senator said he could not understand all the reports about disagreements between him and Johnson that date back to John Kennedy's Administration. Why, protested Bobby, he and Lyndon had been very friendly during the first part of the Administration. But then, as they left the inaugural stand...
Jack Garrity, whose first-period goal was the lone bright spot for Harvard in the Crimson's 4-1 loss to Cornell this past February, was named captain of next year's varsity hockey team at last night's annual hockey dinner...
Other players honored at last night's dinner were senior Dennis McCullough and junior Bobby Carr. McCullough was awarded the John Tudor Memorial Cup for sportsmanship, leadership, and team cooperation, and Carr won the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy as the team's most improved player...
...rage. Colonial cafard-suffocating apathy-has set in. Nevertheless, Archie keeps up the forms of the sahib-settler's life. It is a gruesome parody of colonial ritual. There is tennis every afternoon with his daughter, after which they sit for the "sundowner" before dinner, served by a "boy" in a sashed uniform. But the tennis court has no lines, the "sundowner" is sickening peach brandy bootlegged by Dutch neighbors, the dinner comes out of cans, and the servants-sensing an abdication-are insultingly incompetent...