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...been replaced by a fine souffle. The crowd was mostly adult, almost all white, and wealthy. They walked self-consciously into Fenway, nervously ignoring the ticket less Sox fans who hovered resentfully about the gates. Across the street from the park a large tent enclosed a pregame luncheon party; policemen guarded its entrance, allowing the uninvited only a glimpse of white tableclothes and yellow flowers. Inside the tent a dance orchestra played...
Though Wallace's schedule was kept light, he sometimes appeared to be distracted and often had trouble hearing because of his growing deafness. "You really had to roar at him," said a luncheon companion, "and he had some trouble with our English accents." Wallace's energy did not seem to slacken, but there was no disguising the fact that he is an invalid. Noted the Daily Telegraph: "It was a small, strained, pathetically helpless figure that was helped from car to wheelchair and back...
...Friends of Harvard Rowing are holding their annual luncheon for oarsmen on Saturday afternoon," said one lightweight, "and we won't be able to eat a goddam thing. It kills...
...Angeles, the main event-besides the Disneyland tour-was a luncheon at the Music Center attended by 530 of the city's leading lights, including John Wayne, whom Hirohito specifically asked to meet. In Los Angeles, and later in San Francisco and San Diego, the Emperor also met scores of Japanese Americans, whom he praised at one point for "withstanding many difficulties" in the U.S. At week's end the imperial couple flew on to Hawaii, where they planned to spend three days touring and resting before they board their jet this week for the long ride home...
...Navy popped its cork? Through the ages many a great vessel has been adorned with a topless if wooden dame of the sea. And last week at a cocktail reception before a "Circus Saints and Sinners" charity luncheon in Washington, two bare-breasted belly dancers were ogled by, among others, a sprinkling of admirals and generals. Little wonder that Stevenson has sought legal counsel to have his post restored and the letter of reprimand removed from his file...