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...President Bourguiba was trying to persuade him that "it is up to U.S. leadership to convince France that the Algerian war is not profitable." Within 30 minutes of Murphy's departure from Bourguiba's Carthage residence, three leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front arrived to dine...
...investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday by making his perennial remarks about quitting his literary endeavors once and for all. Peering into the future, he also decided that his slight physique may entitle him to many more years...
Some idea of the extent of his social activity can be grasped from this excerpt from a letter home: "On Thursday I...went to lunch at the Sturgises', and to dine at the Lords'...on Saturday went to lunch with Mrs. Brown at the Touraine and 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...
...arrive at parties together in their air-conditioned Cadillac, but they separate promptly. The women repair to the haramlik, remove their abas, and spend the evening chatting and sipping soft drinks clad in the latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip...
...been James Doe." Said Roosevelt: "I learned how to dine with royalty (you had to finish all of your soup before you earned your meat course) and how to find my way to a tower guest room in Windsor Castle without bumbling into the Queen's or someone else's quarters...