Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday Hour (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Jack Benny...
...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
Philco Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Margaret Cousins' The Strange Christmas Dinner, with Melvyn Douglas and Leo G. Carroll...
When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
Serving their last meal at dinner next Wednesday, the other Houses will remain closed until breakfast on Thursday, January 5. Eliot's dining hall opens one day earlier, serving breakfast Wednesday, January...