Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speakers at the meeting included not only Goldwater -- who often draws very large crowds -- but also such noted conservatives as Russell Kirk, Nationalist Chinese Ambassador George H.C. Yeh, novelist Taylor Caldwell, columnist George Sokolsky, and William F. Buckley, Jr. Congressman Francis Walter and Admiral Lewis Strauss were supposed to come, but didn't make it. Each of these gentlemen was presented with a plaque for services to the nation. Such a phalanx might well be expected to draw every ambulatory conservative within a fifty-mile radius...
...addition to hearing Goldwater, the up awarded plaques--"YAF Nation---to 12 individuals and groups. included Russell Kirk, teacher and of The Conservative Mind: The public of china, represented by its Mr. George K. C. Yeh: Taylor a novelist: the House on Un-American Activities; the -Edison Company; Lewis L. Strauss, presented by Archibald B. Roosevelt '17. The College delegation to the rally-- members of the Harvard Young publican Club--was headed by Howard Phillips '62, a member of YAF's Nation. Board of Directors. Proceedings have started to establish a YAF chapter the University, according to Phillips...
With the exception of one redundant brother (Jack, a "bold lad 10 years old"), Disney retains the whole famdamily (John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran) and most of the menagerie too-one of his press releases proudly points out that the film contains "some 150 myriad animals.'' But except for the shipwreck and the tree house and one or two minor incidents, he abandons the book's plot and substitutes more photogenic, made-in-Hollywood situations...
Voodoo & Sequins. The large entertainment rooms of the hotels have the clearest, most agreeable atmospheres. The Persian Room at the Plaza is the most attractive, almost always features a lone singer (Lilo, Lisa Kirk, Hildegarde). The Waldorf's Empire Room, whose headwaiter has cultivated the manner of a Habsburg prince, offers the biggest marquee names, second only to the Copacabana. They include oldtimers and almost-old-timers (Nelson Eddy, Lena Home, currently Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries) as well as occasional newcomers; recently the room sported the Kim Sisters-three Koreans who sing American and yodel, too. The Maisonette...
...spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...