TAS's 20th Anniversary Gala
TA S'S TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY GALA Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World, addresses the throng. Master of Ceremonies John Gavin greets Vice President Bush as the...
...How many otherwise unwritten words have been published...
...Vice President and Mrs...
...Lou Ann Sabatier, assistant publisher...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...and Norman Podhoretz, editor of Howard Dickman, senior editor of Reader's Digest...
...Among the guests—a congregation variously described as "glittering," "distinguished," and "very nicely dressed"—were Vice President George Bush...
...Ideas tried on, ideas discarded...
...and Father James P. Higgins, V.F...
...TAS Director William Alexandra Scheinburg in the trenches...
...Bush and guests...
...Toasts were then offered by Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams...
...Martin of Tours Church in Martinsville, Indiana, gave the invocation...
...The Omni Shoreham Hotel, perched palatially above Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., is a long distance from the trailer park (Lot #6) in Bloomington, Indiana, where Bob Tyrrell, then a graduate student in history, pasted up the first issue of The American Spectator...
...Father James Higgins, the pastor of St...
...Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley...
...Cindy Gamron and TAS Kapellmeister Baron von Judge Robert Bork and Ellen Bork of the Department of State are apprised Kannon...
...Fawn Hall and Andrew Ferguson...
...Let's face it—I like any publication that doesn't carry `Doonesbury.'" Following Bush, Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World, paid tribute to Tyrrell and the magazine: "The Spectator has lived a lot of life in its twenty years," said Miss Decter...
...Louise Charles, media director, Sussman and Sugar...
...of champagne's nutritional benefits by RFT...
...Production Manager Denise Birkhold feigns interest as raconteur and saloon reviewer Joe Mysak strikes a familiar pose...
...Ernest van den Haag, professor David Brooks, book editor of the Wall Street Journal...
...the house detectives didn't show up until 1:30 a.m...
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...and Richard M. larry, president of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and his wife Lois...
...Vice President Bush, delivering the keynote address, was introduced by master of ceremonies John Gavin, former ambassador to Mexico...
...Bush greet well-wishers, while R. Emmett Tyrrell, TAS Director David Henderson and his wife Peggy...
...How many new writers helped to their feet...
...Photos by Katharine Andriotis) Dr...
...and Bill DiModugno, media advertising, Chicago Tribune Co...
...Michael S. Joyce, executive director, Bradley Foundation...
...and Judge Robert Bork, the mere mention of whose name twice brought the thundering throng to their feet...
...26 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1988 Publisher Ronald E. Burr schmoozes with Mrs...
...Irving Kristol, editor of the Public Interest...
...TAS Glamour Girls: Circulation Manager Kathleen "Please Allow Six to Eight Weeks" Anderson, Subscription Manager Vanessa McIntyre, Assistant Production Manager Michelle Emord, and My Hanh E. Burr, special assistant in charge of nepotism...
...and Commentary, in a rare moment of agreement...
...Meese Fan Club President P. J. O'Rourke...
...and P. J. O'Rourke, who captured the spirit of the Spectator by asking, "What use is it for the pen being mightier than the sword if you can't stab somebody with a ball point once in a while...
...Senator Ernest Hollings...
...Sir James Goldsmith, philosophical...
...I like the Spectator," said Bush...
...It was with solemn dignity that he greeted 650 of his closest friends who gathered at the Shoreham on November 4 to celebrate the magazine's twentieth (platinum) anniversary...
...At this, Tyrrell applauded ferociously...
...Master of Ceremonies John Gavin greets Vice President Bush as the revels begin...
...After that the party continued in distant corners of the hotel...
...Tom Pauken, vice president and corporate counsel of Garvon, Inc...
...Wick Allison, editor-in-chief and publisher, Marc Weilheimer, media director, Jameson Advertising...
...feels the champagne kick in...
...New friends embraced, enemies made...
...But if the wild change in venue has unnerved Tyrrell, he has yet to show it...
...C. Westmoreland...
...of jurisprudence at Fordham University...
...Art & Antiques, and his wife Christine...
Vol. 21 • January 1988 • No. 1
