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...issues that are causing Harvard's club members in Philadelphia to ask themselves "Why are we existing?" He cites waning attention at club functions--110 at the big annual dinner. 60 Harvard grads and 50 wives--and a couple of affairs with Harvard luminaries like the luncheon with John H. Parry. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, that attracted only 40 members. "Maybe we are spreading ourselves too thin?" he asks. "But we are still an active organization...
Lady Cynthia died in 1933. Three years later Mosley secretly married Diana Freeman-Mitford in Berlin. The wedding luncheon was given by Mrs. Joseph Goebbels, and the honored guests included Adolf Hitler, who saw Diana as "the ideal Nordic woman." At the time, Hitler was a close friend of Diana's sister, Unity Mitford, whose active infatuation with Nazism ended in a botched suicide attempt at the outbreak of World War II. Even though Mosley had pledged to fight against Germany if England was attacked, Churchill prudently had him and his wife interned for 3½ years as possible...
...Gorky Street on his way to lunch. Suddenly a tall, good-looking stranger hailed him like a long-lost friend. Alex's purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that he was a spy, than sentenced him to 25 years of hard labor anyway. He served only a third of that, but not until he was almost...
After a 95-minute meeting withFord and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office, the Shah was the guest of honor, with Empress Farah, at a luncheon given by Kissinger and his wife Nancy. The site of the feast was Hillwood, the verdant 25-acre estate bequeathed to the Government by the late Marjorie Merriweather Post. A huge green-and-white-striped tent was hung with May baskets filled with tulips. Inside, guests lunched on gazpacho, filet of beef, and lime sherbet heaped with fresh strawberries. The Robert Mc-Namaras, the William F. Buckleys, the David Brinkleys...
...special luncheon meeting, the Corporation spent less than ten minutes in passing the report. "Most of that time," one source said, "was spent discussing tactics to make the Radcliffe Board feel more comfortable with...