Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YEAR END REVIEW: A DINNER AT HOWARD K. SMITH'S (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* ABC correspondents gather at the Maryland home of their colleague to discuss and analyze the major news events of 1966. Among them: Edward P. Morgan, William Lawrence, John Scali, Sam Jaffe, Charles Arnot and George Watson...
Reviewing TIME'S own experience in the past twelve months, we are happy to be able to say that it was an excellent year. Early in 1966, our editorial staff gathered for a dinner at New York's Plaza Hotel, largely to socialize but also to hear a progress report on TIME. "The recognition for what we do individually goes to the magazine as a whole, with its great success and impact," said Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer. So, without smugness, we take some satisfaction from the fact that financially this was our best in 44 years of publishing...
...acre L.B.J. Ranch to gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday on Dec. 22. And even though Lyndon Johnson was putting in non-recuperative hours-conferring with Cabinet officers...
...only are American businessmen good credit risks ("Some even pay twice by mistake," marveled one Briton), but they are also overwhelmingly hospitable. "They kill us with kindness," protested one tailor, who finds himself invited out for dinner and away for weekends. In London, he might be invited in for a drink at most, and that only if he delivered a suit personally. In return, the Englishmen go all out to satisfy their customers. Traveling Partner Frederick Lintott of H. Huntsman & Sons, which specializes in hunting pinks and riding clothes, recalls vividly being awakened at 3 a.m. in his Biltmore suite...
George Marshall may not have been the most brilliant of dinner-table conversationalists, but it could be said that men hung on his words...