Dinners and dining

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (seated, center), with Admiral Thomas H. Binford (standing, left), and Chaplain Joshua L. Goldberg (standing, right) at a dinner. All others are unidentified. Date, location, and event are all unknown.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center) is awarded "Young Man of the Year." He is pictured speaking at the Toledo, Ohio Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Reception. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) at the Toledo, Ohio Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Reception. At this event. Pace was awarded the "Young Man of the Year" award. The speaker and all others at the table are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second from right) at a dinner and reception hosted by the Toledo, Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Pace was recognized as "Young Man of the Year" at the event. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) at a dinner with Admiral Thomas H. Binford (second from right) and other unidentified men. The date and location of this event are unknown.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (seated, center) at a dinner event with Francis Cardinal Spellman (seated, left), General Willis Crittenberger (standing, left), and Chaplain Joshua L. Goldberg (standing, right). The man seated on the right is unidentified. Exact date and location are unknown.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (front center) is pictured with Francis Cardinal Spellman (front row, left), General Willis Crittenberger (standing, second from left), Chaplain Joshua L. Goldberg (standing, third from left), and Admiral Thomas H. Binford (standing, second from right). All others are unidentified.

Margaret Pace (standing, right), wife of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, greets unidentified military officer at a banquet. The other two women are also unidentified.

Interior view of dining area in what was once the palace and at time of photograph a state sanitarium. W. Averell Harriman is standing in the center of the photograph with his wife Marie to the left of him. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seated on the right at the end of the table. He may have just been visiting a concrete plant located at Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan. Thayer's typewritten account of the trip states, "From the concrete plant we went to the Miners Club for a banquet at which the director of the mine, Sandrigaovo, was the host. The co-host was the Mayor of Rudni, Morosov." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959.