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...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
Ikeda, a stocky man with a hoarse voice who recovered from a near-fatal skin disease in the 1930s, proved highly durable on the Washington ceremonial circuit. He chatted, via interpreter, with President Kennedy at the White House, made a hit at a stag luncheon given by Vice President Johnson by expressing, with deep feeling, Japan's appreciation for U.S. financial aid. Ikeda spent an afternoon in discussions with Rusk and aides in the State Department, and he and his pretty kimono-clad wife Mitsue and three daughters were guests at a Japan-America Society reception...
...like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph album of her coming-out will forever record...
...young lady (Shirley Anne Field) whose profession requires her to leap out of cakes at stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...
...thing, he was so anxious to please Victoria's consort, the German Prince Albert, that his paintings took on the dead, glassy surface favored by the Germans. From then on, everything about his work degenerated. His famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when...