Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More, King." Once settled in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the King began his New York rounds. There were a visit and a speech at the United Nations, a meeting with the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, a luncheon, reception, and dinner, all in the King's honor-and attended most of the time, to his dismay, by newsmen and photographers ("Come on. King, look this way; one more picture. King...
...rustle as Frenchmen filed into la Salle de l'Horlage at the Quai d'Orsay to stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King'' Ivar Kreuger. If they had cause for melancholy, they did not yet know it. They were somewhat nervous about some bookkeeping...
CORPORATIONS Catini to the U.S At a private luncheon in Milan with a group of Italian industrialists, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston extolled the advantages of listing their stocks on the Big Board, where they would have free access to the world's biggest financial market. One of the intent listeners was blue-eyed, blueblood Count Carlo Faina, 62, president of Italy's giant Montecatini Co. Last week the exchange made an announcement: about Feb. 15, provided SEC agrees, the New York Stock Exchange will list 20 million shares of Catini, as it is known...
Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded...
...Manhattan last week. Producer DeMille made a dramatic announcement: he will turn over all his own profits from the movie "for all time" to a special trust fund to be set up for "charitable, religious and educational purposes." Said he before a civic luncheon audience: "I believe deeply that the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai are not laws. They are the law . . . They are the charter and guide of human liberty . . . The struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. Are men free souls under God or are they...