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...more self-confident grads even delivered extra talks on an impromptu basis. The first dwelt on the accomplishments of an 86 year old acquaintance who a) hasn't paid his club dues in 36 years, b) has to be "dragged" to religious meetings, c) still receives plenty of promiscuous offers, d) spends his time spooning in front of his TV set, and e) always smiles. This was why "life begins at forty" according to our speaker...
...attentive eye on the arts. His diary provides an informal cultural history of 19th century New York, written from the viewpoint of an enlightened conservative. It is crammed with shrewd comments on the music of Beethoven ("the Byron of Musicians") and Mozart ("the king of Melody"), brightened by impromptu reviews of Jenny Lind's singing ("marvelously executed") and Edwin Booth's acting ("carefully studied"). Strong found time to read the classics of his day as they appeared, and appraised them with instinctive good sense...
Ikeman Ronald Welch is brooding over convention arrangements. His notebook is crammed with entries ranging from bands, calliope, "banner-towing helicopters," TV sets and tea parties to "impromptu demonstrations." The plans for "impromptu demonstrations" are only slightly less elaborate than those of another Eisenhower staff for D-day eight years...
...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...
Copenhagen photographers had a chance to record a farewell appearance of General Dwight Eisenhower in a smiling, gallant pose with another popular American, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Mrs. Eugenie Anderson; then he made an impromptu speech to some 2,000 university students gathered in the courtyard of Christiansborg Palace. Said Ike, at the conclusion of his talk on the cost and importance of NATO unity: "I'm going home now, due to special circumstances...