Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General. Not that Nixon's men had to get rough. George A. Spater, until recently the chairman of American Airlines, was courted by Kalmbach over dinner at Manhattan's chic "21" Club. His host was "a very soft-sell, a very congenial gentleman," said Spater...
...host, Los Angeles Investor Z. Wayne Griffin, was not quite so diffident. "I've known Bob since he was four years old," said Griffin, "and as an old Haldeman aficionado, I simply wanted to welcome home a favorite son. The public doesn't realize how much Bob sacrificed in government service." The guests at the private party in Perino's restaurant (menu: roast beef and apple cake à la mode) represented a well-heeled selection of the Southern California Establishment, including onetime Haldeman associates former Communications Director Herbert G. Klein and former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch...
DONLEAVY IS MORE successful in populating the big city with a host of tortured and combatative New Yorkers. He prods his hero with encounters with nervous executives, diffident bums, desperate women, fat Mafia men, and seemingly ubiquitous subway perverts...
...Celts host Rick Barry and the Golden State Warriors on Friday before traveling to Atlanta for a game with the Hawks on Saturday...
...quite. At a press preview of the première (all shows are taped in advance in Los Angeles without a studio audience), Host Tom Snyder opened with a scathingly opinionated monologue on the Agnew resignation. He castigated the "pious and sanctimonious bilge coming out of Washington" and concluded with the comment: "How dumb do they think we are?" By the time the show went on the air the next morning, however, the network had forced Snyder to retape his opener, omitting his critical broadside...