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...White House disclosed today that Truman, who has not been on friendly terms with President Eisenhower since the 1952 campaign, sent his regrets when invited to attend a stag dinner Wednesday night in honor of the former British Prime Minister. Truman confirmed the story...
Again, in January 1956, Ike summoned his closest advisers to a White House stag dinner. "I have called you together," said he, "to discuss a decision that I must soon make myself." Subject for decision: whether to run for reelection. In the general stampede to urge Ike to run, two guests, privately primed by Milton to present the negative side, forgot their duty. Then Milton stood up. "I was supposed to summarize this discussion," said he. "But since the opinion is unanimous, there is nothing to summarize. Therefore I am going to state both sides of the argument...
...hardest private eyes in town, takes on ex-pugs, Harlem hopheads, dance-hall dolls, a poverty-row pressagent and the alcoholic editorial staff of a scandal magazine in a two-fisted attempt to keep a client from being reminded of her days as a dancer at stag smokers. It proves only that when a girl gets into trouble there is always a good man around to get her out, provided she has copper-colored hair and the kind of construction that puts a lovelight in a private...
...went to the theatre in the evening. On Sunday (yesterday) I met Sidney Lord in Harvard Square at 9:30, & we went to Oakley and had a very good game of golf, & met various members of the family. I hustled back at 12:30 and went in to a stag lunch with Willy Burnham... After service I paid several calls, one to the Forbeses' but they were out. I hustled back here and in again to dinner at Gerry Chadwick's where I stayed all evening...
...room, she sat in regal isolation, helplessly frozen in the icy formality of unapproachable rank, her eagerness to dance hidden under a fagade of gracious half smiles. At last, the only person in the'room able to do so decided on drastic action. Bearing down on a stag line of diffident lordlings, he seized one by the arm and muttered: "For God's sake, go and ask the Queen to dance. The poor thing's been bored stiff all evening...