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...have plenty left to pay for parties. One company alone, Yawata, the nation's largest steel producer, spent an estimated $150,000 on its bohnenkai last year. Besides regarding the parties as a safety valve to let their hard-working employees blow off steam, businessmen use them to entertain favored customers and government officials. At other times in the year, such entertaining would be frowned on as commercial bribery, but a bohnenkai forgets that...
...Thailand's humid climate, few paintings have survived, but the sculpture is more than sufficient to show the paradoxical versatility of Thailand's artists. The bronze Bodhisattva (see color) is a masterpiece of intricate workmanship; the lithe little dancing figure, who was meant both to protect and entertain Buddha, bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands like opening...
There was a time not long ago, when businessmen would entertain visiting clients by taking them to a Broadway show (naturally there are other, even more traditional modes of entertainment which needn't be discussed here). About two years ago, however, incoming clients began expressing a desire to visit "a coffee house in the village." The role of the coffeehouse is now being pre-empted, for the off-Broadway theater, has become mildly entertaining, fulfills a visiting salesman's notion of "the Village" and the scene of nothing terribly serious...
...started by Burt Browne, 55, president of Burton Browne Advertising ($5,000,000 a year in billings, mostly in electronics accounts), who declares he is "the only saloonkeeper in the country listed in Who's Who, the Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place for Chicago hucksters that Browne could hardly...
...Canvases of contemporary U.S. painters will be hung on the White House walls, says Tish, "even if it means putting paintings in front of paintings." ¶ An effort will be made to entertain informally, with "very much of a cross section of dinner lists," drawn from many walks of life...