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...invitation was a minor intimation of immortality: "The Former Friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you to A Gala! Joyous! Exultant! Celebration of his Departure from the Government of the United States of America and the Opening of his New Offices, CASH (Center for the Advanced Study of History). Dinner and Dancing ... 7 o'clock till dawn . . . Many Door Prizes-a Favorable Mention in his History of the Kennedy Administration . . . Come as you were...
...CRIMSON Winter Competition will begin at 7:30 this evening with a gala introductory meeting in the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton St. Free Coke and beer will flow freely as hardbitten Crimeds try to explain what they do and also, perhaps...
Queen Elizabeth is. The Duchess of Kent is. Princess Alexandra is. In Britain these days, it's the royal way to be -pregnant. And Princess Margaret, 33? Meg and Hubby Antony Armstrong-Jones, 33, aren't talking. They're just dancing the evenings away at gala balls and such. But public and papers alike have decided that those adoring looks mean that Meg is, too. Ah well, if they keep repeating the rumor for long enough, sooner or later it will be true...
...Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This is the most exciting orchestra...
...semiformal evening requiring a tuxedo. This outfit is the only species of formal wear which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost...