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...women & children funneled into the old cathedral town of Durham. In a noisy, hilarious parade, they cascaded through the streets to the old abandoned race course, where every year the coal miners of Durham County quaff free beer and quiver at oratory at their annual Miners' Gala (pronounced gayler...
...gala grounds went Aneurin Bevan to provide the kind of fighting oratory that goes with the Miners' Gala the way bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more...
Those in the gala audience who had also seen Aïda before were a good bet to side with Rudolf Bing on opening night this week. They would not even have to look around for something startling and different: the stunning new sets and costumes were designed to smack them right in the eyes...
...this weakened Jonathon Belcher's influence considerably, and subsequent string-pulling only netted him the post of Governor of New Jersey. His arrival in the Garden State was a gala event in 1747, but he demonstrated the powers of perception gained at Harvard by describing the citizens of New Jersey -- "the greatest part of them in a Wretched State of Ignorance, Unpolisht and of bad manners." Disillusioned, he named his estate "World's End," then decided to establish a respectable college...
...example of the fact that, contrary to general opinion, good ruggers do not have to be giants. Weighing only 150 pounds, Kunhardt managed to make last year's All-Star American Rugby team. This team is drawn from American universities which compete each Easter vacation at the Bermuda gala Rugby Week. Usually the universities are Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and M.I.T...