Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Geoffrey O'Hara, 84, composer, who was the toast of Tin Pan Alley in 1913 when opera's great Caruso recorded Your Eyes Have Told Me and Al Jolson belted Tennessee to popularity, but is best remembered for his rollicking K-K-K-Katy, which became the barracks and marching favorite of World War I's doughboys; of hemolytic anemia; in St. Petersburg...
Wilson and De Gaulle exchanged polite toasts at lunch, Wilson praising De Gaulle as a man "who is not afraid of change," and De Gaulle saying, in effect: It's nice to see you, Harold, even if nothing comes of all this. The champagne was Veuve Clicquot 1959 which was Churchill's favorite, and it helped put George Brown in such a comradely mood that, as they rose from the table, he grabbed De Gaulle by the arm. The French gasped; it was comparable to tweaking the Queen's ear. But De Gaulle was unperturbed...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Sabrina (1954), the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who becomes the toast of Long Island society...
...umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks the audience for not knowing what the first...
Cambridge hangers-on this vacation woke each morning (usually around 10 a.m.) in pleasant anticipation of the breakfast waiting for them in the Leverett House dining hall. It was a humble meal, coffee, toast, butter, jam, peanut butter, and juice, but it was there from 9 to 11 a.m. and certainly preferable to the dry tongue a late riser must live with now that the dining halls are back on their regular schedules...