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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1784, a group of Harvard undergraduates, despairing of the poor quality of University food, decided to get together for a small private dinner of roast suckling pig and all the trimmings. Enjoying the meal and delighting in one another's company, the group made plans to get together more often for such dinners. Soon after, a few more undergraduates added to their group, they began to call themselves the Pig Club. Disliking the unpleasant connotations of the name, they later changed it to the Pork Club...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Behind the Velvet Curtain | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

Naturally, something had to happen to show that the barn door is still not locked. The very next night, Housing Minister Richard Crossman, an acid critic of the Vassall affair, took some work with him to dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee, he absentmindedly left behind under the table 18 sheets stamped "Confidential." At a nearby table was a Conservative businessman, Geoffrey Blundell-Brown, who gleefully retrieved the papers, read them, then called the Daily Express to lambaste the lapse. With that, Blundell-Brown returned the documents. Crossman said he was "much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Under the Table | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service of 952 pieces in what was Wedgwood's largest commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceramics: Britain's Royal Potter | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...much care for the shape of the decanter," Harrison purrs, eying the built-in bar accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some sprightly table talk about the anchovy sauce served on British trains. Next day, while Harrison's horse wins the Gold Cup, Harrison's wife loses herself to Purdom in the Rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Seat Romance | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Henry P. Briggs Jr. '54, director of Freshman Scholarships, has been named senior tutor of Leverett House for 1965-66. Richard T. Gill announced the one-year appointment last night at the annual Junior-Senior dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Briggs Named Leverett Senior Tutor | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

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