Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny (5 ft.1 in.) Lily Pons opened the summer season at big (cap. 10,000) Red Rocks Amphitheater, and proved once more that her appeal is almost universal. Although concert time was 8:15, the bowl was nearly filled by 6. For two hours the crowd munched picnic sandwiches and waited. When Lily finally sang, her listeners gave her explosive applause for every number...
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
...Fine is deeply devoted to the boys, and they to him. One of the reasons for Fine's affection for General MacArthur is supposed to be the attention the general paid to the boys during a visit. Eisenhower was well briefed on this matter. At the Gettysburg picnic Ike met the boys, and asked Donald...
...Picnic in Pennsylvania. On his plane heading for his meeting with the Pennsylvania delegation, Ike breakfasted off a tray balanced on a pillow on his lap, then went forward and sat in the pilot's seat. At Harrisburg, Governor John Fine welcomed him. At his farm three miles from Gettysburg, Ike had a happy reunion with his old friend Arthur Nevins, a retired brigadier general who runs the place (189 acres, twelve Holsteins, ten Guernseys, 500 chickens) while Ike is away. From New York Ike had phoned: "I'm coming down for a picnic. Don't sell...
...picnic came 58 members of the important 70-man Pennsylvania delegation, including determined Fence-Sitter Fine, plus 60 alternates and 160 newsmen. Ike spoke to them from the back porch. It was his duty, he said, to tell delegates how he would tackle Government problems; it was their duty to decide whether they liked what he said. "I will abide by their decision cheerfully...