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...string of Hollywood movie musicals before hitting his stride as a master of ceremonies and fund raiser. A superpatriot who liked to wear a ribbon-bedecked U.S.O. "uniform" of his own devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from the shade, it is all worthwhile...
This morning the city of Boston will roast its latest favorite sons the 1980-81 National Basketball Association champion Celtics, with Boston Celtics' Day highlighted by a parade at 11 a.m. The procession will start at the Park Plaza Hotel and finish up in front of City Hall...
Holiday Inn in Houghton Lake to celebrate, with a Southern-style pig roast, the start of drilling in a gas well that may go as deep as 20,000 ft., or almost twice the depth of any other well sunk so far in the state. Meanwhile, the corporate jets that brought them to Houghton Lake waited wingtip to wingtip at nearby Grayling McNamara Airport to whisk them back out again at nightfall...
April 13, 7:24 a.m.--Police investigated the theft of a 14-lb. ham, six pounds of cooked roast beef, and a ten-lb. salami from the Greenhouse Cafe. The thieves broke open a lock on a refrigerator to steal the food...
...believe that I have left an internship at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, France--city of love and lights--to file drug receipts in New Jersey. They do not understand why I am so happy to be able to et a roast beef sandwhich for lunch...