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...wear them to a little private party, can they?" Others profess to avoid it as much as they can. Mrs. Algur Meadows (General American Oil) much prefers to play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades Club, but she gets "caught up in" the (strictly ladies) luncheon and (mixed) dinner party circuit. "There are almost too many parties," complains Mrs. Meadows. "I was recently out eleven nights in a row. I canceled out on the twelfth, and there's a luncheon every day. Some people have nothing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Nice, Friendly Place to Visit | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...Thank you, thank you," said John Stewart Service, 63, as he received an ovation from 300 fellow diplomats at a luncheon of the American Foreign Service Association. The ceremony, honoring a number of old China hands, was a little like one of those "rehabilitations" that mysteriously occur when policies change behind the Iron Curtain, for Service had been dismissed from the State Department in 1951 because of "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. Among other things, he was guilty of predicting that the Communists would defeat Chiang's Nationalists. Service went to court and won reinstatement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Prophet Honored (Sort Of) | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

Jerome A. Chohen, professor of Law, hosted a luncheon for the Chinese visitors at the Law School yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Hosts Chinese Group: | 12/5/1972 | See Source »

Dave St. Pierre yesterday became Harvard's 100th football captain. Coach Joe Restic's announcement of the junior safetyman's selection as successor to Ted DeMars came at a Harvard Varsity Club press luncheon held at the Varsity Club...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Gridders Elect St. Pierre '73 Captain; Safetyman Voted to Succeed DeMars | 11/28/1972 | See Source »

...development, indulging once in what to most acteurists was anathema--social criticism (in a useful review of The Great White Hope). Judging from the Voice's last volume, and sundry other writings. I was wrong. His current critical canon has included predictable praise for Frenzy (and a pre-review luncheon with Hitchcock himself), approval of The Man because it at least wasn't critical about politicians (some deep cynicism in an order, I would think), and the first step in doubtless a long series to come in the reclamation of John Huston for auleurists on the tenuous excuse...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Decline and Fall of a Film-Watcher | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

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