Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Situation Room when war flared in the Middle East last June and Mos cow activated the "hot line." And it is Clifford who gathers trusted friends for good food and barbershop harmonizing at his Kensington, Md., home when a lonely President telephones and asks: "Can I come to dinner...
...audience in Carnegie Hall and whispered: "I feel like a whore in church." That was the night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha Tilton. Goodman, now 58, fed them...
...brought a consuming energy that threatened to wear out associates. For he is a man who dotes on work. An average day includes twelve hours at the office, another three working at home-after which Saunders relaxes with a vengeance. He ordinarily takes a couple of double martinis before dinner, wine during the meal, and brandy plus two or three Scotches and soda afterward. Not long ago, at a reunion at Roanoke College, where Alumnus Saunders ('30) is now chairman of the trustees, a classmate told him: "You always were a lucky guy." Replied Saunders: "Yes, I suppose...
...Dinner with Dracula, John Zacherley...
...known as International Voluntary Services he noticeably winced, said I was crazy and that I should go home right away. But he warmed up to a description of the kind of work I'd probably be doing with refugees and came out to the IVS house with me for dinner that night. Later I drove him to the field hospital at Ton San Nhut, said good-bye and good luck, never expecting to see Mike again...