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WESTERN AIR LINES, which has climbed from near bankruptcy in 1947 to a solid ranking as the tenth biggest U.S. airline, has just completed an $11 million expansion program. Western has bought eight Douglas DC-6Bs, will put them on its luxury flights (filet mignon, champagne, orchids) along the West Coast and to the Twin Cities in hopes of adding another 50 million passenger revenue miles (1954 total: an estimated 407 million...
...Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey, I'm all booked up next year; there wouldn...
...committee (he insisted that the presidential plane Columbine should not be used for traveling to a Republican Party affair), but rain and fog kept him grounded. Instead, he rode in a special train (paid for by the G.O.P.). Missing out on the $100 banquet fare (turtle soup, filet mignon, ice cream, New York State champagne), he dined on the train, then changed into his dinner jacket to face the microphones...
...last week, only one day out of New York she ran into a 45-m.p.h. wind and rough seas. In the main dining room, tumbling furniture bruised 20 passengers, who suddenly found themselves, as one said, "swimming around in filet mignon, spaghetti and antipasto mixed with champagne." Next day the Andrea Doria proudly steamed up New York's Narrows to the traditional, tumultuous whistle and toot of a harbor welcome. Gale and all she was only minutes off schedule...
...hours later Churchill was the President's host at dinner in the British Embassy. Truman came to the Churchill party from a fund-raising dinner where he had already faced seafood in aspic, petite marmite, filet mignon, stuffed artichokes, potatoes au gratin, chiffonade salad and baked Alaska. Somehow the President managed to make a respectable stab at the Embassy's consomme, Dover sole, saddle of veal, potatoes duchesse, cauliflower and charlotte pralinee. It was at this semipublic occasion-there were 16 British and American officials present-that Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose to lecture the Prime Minister...