Within a week, he and his two deputies had recruited half a dozen donors to anchor the dinner.
In his long and versatile career, he created coins for the Royal Mint, postage stamps and postal order forms, the WH Smith logo, the packaging for Anchor butter and dinner services for embassies and colleges.
Such was its reverence for the seriousness of its own mission, to "inform, educate and entertain," that its news anchors habitually wore dinner jackets during radio broadcasts.
This year, he will have a prime-time speaking slot on the convention's first night in New York City, play host to the network anchors at a private dinner the day before, campaign with the president in several states the day after, speak to 10 or 15 state delegations and preside over a celebrity party with the comedian Darrell Hammond on the eve of Mr. Bush's re-nomination.
The dinner menu is anchored with Down East classics: chowders, baked clams, lobster pot pie, lobster rolls and fruit cobblers.
Susan Lucci, the actress, and John Roland, the television anchor, are hosts for the buffet dinner.
"I had these dinner napkins" — nautical, with anchors, sailboats, and lighthouses — "and she made this.
"Cain, campaign teetering, pulls out of a Sunday night NYC dinner with media elite, incl anchor Roma Torre.," Robin tweeted.
Author and her Russian friend, Natasha, are invited to have dinner on a French warship, anchored midstream in the Whangpoo.
By Emily Hahn The New Yorker, November 19 , 1938P. 19 Author and her Russian friend, Natasha, are invited to have dinner on a French warship, anchored midstream in the Whangpoo.
