Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. gymnasium) last Sunday night to make way for several hundred small round tables, each with a white and a red carnation in the center and neat white programs with the cartooned image of Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan on the seats. It was a "do" (testimonial dinner) for Sullivan, perenially the top vote-getter in City Council elections...
...Dinner--"to be served at 6:30 p.m. sharp" as the invitation said--didn't begin until after seven, but the sodality ladies, school teachers, and even the Somerville policemen religiously refrained from dipping into their fruit cups until after the Bishop of Boston delivered the invocation. Meanwhile, Ruby Newman's Orchestra, attuned to the niceties of the affair, balanced "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" with "Arrivederci Roma" as they played from the balcony...
...Honorable Howard W. Fitzpatrick, High Sheriff of Middlesex County, was there. Some said the dinner had originally been planned as a kick-off for Sullivan's campaign to succeed the supposedly retiring Fitzpatrick as Sheriff, but when "Howie" decided to run again, the "do" became just a "tribute to a good man." Fitzpatrick wished Sullivan "God's choicest blessings." In return, Walter reminded the crowd that "I'm one of Howie's campaign managers. He's running for re-election--don't forget that...
...hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said as he beamed at the audience...
...Kirkland House Ford dinner series presents Michael Holroyd, biographer of Lytton Strachey, speaking on "The Perils of a Biographer" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Admission is free...