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When Sweden's Jenny Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
Just a year before, in the midst of his annual reception for the members of the Congress, Kennedy had learned that the U.S.-backed Cuba invasion had turned into a fiasco. Last week, on the date of Blough's White House visit, Kennedy was scheduled to greet the Congressmen again. Said he, with grim humor: "I'll never have another congressional reception...
...beginning of a state visit to the U.S. As their motorcade drove through the White House's main gates. 100 uniformed, white-gloved Marines snapped to attention, their bayonets gleaming in the rainy night. And when the royal Iranians stepped out on the North Portico to greet the President and First Lady, the society reporters murmured audibly. The Shah was resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent of medals and decorations across his formal dress, but his sloe-eyed wife stunned the onlookers. "It was a matter of groping frantically for adjectives superlative enough to describe...
Waiting at Washington's National Airport to greet his wife after her three-week visit to Europe, India and Pakistan was President Kennedy. As the beige and white family Convair, Caroline, wheeled around to a stop in front of the terminal, Kennedy walked up the aluminum ladder into the cabin. Moments later, Jack and Jackie emerged, smiling happily. Said Jackie, in a statement released later by Assistant White House Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher: "I have missed my family and have no desire to be a public personality on my own. If people were kind to me, it was because...
...Avenue turned leprechaun green (as it always does in spring), and 120,000 people marched in honor of an ancient Irish saint. In German Bierstuben, Milwaukee toasted spring with the first malty bock of the season. Philadelphians filled the benches of Rittenhouse Square, turning their pale faces upward to greet the warming sun. And Washington was in an April mood as the first boisterous busloads of visiting students arrived on spring vacation...