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Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...
...celebrating began in Philadelphia. "It's wonderful," cried the banquet guests, and plunged into fried chicken, roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...swank banquet room of the Hotel Vancouver, 170 new Soviet citizens sat down last week to eat a $2.50 dinner of bouillon, roast chicken, green peas, ice cream and coffee...
...dinner, as the Fred Van Deventer family finished the roast chicken, their radio-producer guest told how new programs were born. Any simple idea might do. "How about Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?" asked 16-year-old Nancy Van Deventer. "Why not?" said the producer...