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...boiled front of Connecticut's shirtsleeve C.I.O.-P.A.C. is a name-studded, money-gathering outfit called the Connecticut Citizens Political Action Committee. Born at a gala January party, the 500-member C.C.P.A.C. chose as its chairman lean, bespectacled Dr. Liston Pope, associate professor of social ethics at Yale. For balance, Torchsinger Libby Holman was named vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Brubaker, wife of a New Yorker paragrapher, executive secretary...
...program of the entire weekend of the Harvard Jubilee, April 26 to 27, were released last night by Buel S. Smith '49, chairman of the Class Committee. Two new points emerged in his statement; the Union will be used for the formal dance Saturday night, and a "gala revue" is in preparation for the Friday evening festivities...
...Britons will concede that Britain has lost anything of her basic vitality or human potential. The show will go on, as colorfully as possible. Last week Covent Garden, London's Royal Opera House, which jitterbugging G.I.s used as a dance hall during the war, reopened with a gala performance of the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Princesses arrived in their gleaming Daimlers. A photographer, kneeling in the crush, tugged at a trousered leg, begged: "Give us a break, will you, George." He was embarrassed when the King turned around...
...Cassini gushed in a recent column: "Peace, it's wonderful! What a change from the muddy boots, the shivering cold, the caked blood." Better times were coming: "We're in for an era of mad spending and fun-making. . . . Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. entertained at a gala dinner...
Like most American men, Harry Truman loves a stag party. He also loves the Democratic Party. Last week the President brought the two loves together for a gala two days of eating, drinking, ribbing, horseshoe-pitching and politicking. The picnic grounds were the Jefferson Islands Club, three dots of green in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, a sumptuous hideaway dedicated to simon-pure Democracy. The President's playmates: more than 200 Democrats-Congressmen and Cabinet members, a few business bigwigs, a few tried & true old friends...