Tells about the London business-luncheon scene prior to Pret... Co-founder Sinclair Beecham, 43, along with Julian Metcalfe, made Pret into a national fast-food chain of forty stories by the mid-nineties... Pret a Manger was an urban concept, and, as the company grew to a hundred and twenty shops, it exhausted the number of British cities large enough to support it.
Authors Galore at a Luncheon Behind the scenes in the county's public libraries is where the Westchester Library System usually works, occasionally showing its face at a public event.
The Senate Democratic luncheon Tuesday was reportedly the scene of great agitation.
Mara: They just played that scene [at the AFI Awards luncheon].
The scene at the Senate Republicans' weekly luncheon last Tuesday illustrated how Mr. Cheney operates.
Thomas Perry delivers all that good stuff in THE BOYFRIEND (Mysterious Press/Grove/Atlantic, $25), which opens on a mischievous note with a scene straight out of chick lit — the luncheon reunion of three unmarried and fiercely competitive sorority sisters.
A few days ago, at the tea for the BAFTAs — that's the British equivalent of the Oscars — the Bagger spoke with another of the film's stars, Wendi McLendon-Covey, who plays Rita, the mother of three boys, about being identified with that scene, which also made the clip reel at the esteemed American Film Institute luncheon, an event Ms. McLendon-Covey was proud to be associated with.
At the luncheon on Friday, the audience of 250 listened raptly as Ms. Heinz Kerry sketched scenes of children in African war zones and told about a young girl in Bangladesh whose life was changed by a computer course that cost $20.
On January 18 , 1914 Ezra Pound, helped by William Butler Yeats, and, behind the scenes, by Yeats's patron and friend, Lady Gregory, held a luncheon for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a man whom Pound regarded as the "grandest of old men" and "the last of the great Victorians," at Blunt's manor house in West Sussex.
But the raid at his music company offices at 8200 Wilshire Boulevard drew the most attention today: shattered glass, crime-scene tape and television trucks are not the usual stuff of Beverly Hills luncheon life.
