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LOTOS CLUB. A large group of approximately fifty Lotos Club menus signed by the recipients of honorary dinners. New York: The Lotos Club, circa 1950s-2000s. Original illustrated menus signed on the rectos, several signed by other promiment figures at the dinners. Most about 12 x 10 inches. Generally fine, some signs of handling.

Includes:

1950s: Harry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; John D. Rockefeller; Hoyt S. Vandenberg; Dr. Alan Nevins; Brooke Claxton (taped over); Robert Moses; General Lemuel C. Shepard; George V. Allen; Robert F. Wagner; Lily Pons; James A. Farley; Sir Roger Makins; Sir Thomas Beecham; Dr. Detlev; General Nathan F. Twining; Van Cliburn; Nelson Rockefeller; Cardinal Spellman;

1960s: Harry Bruno (2); John Gilland Brunini; John Lindsay (2); Robert Frost (2); Edmund Muskie;

1970s: Richard Tucker;

1980s: Ed Koch; Baron Guy de Rothschild; Carlos P. Romulo; Mario Cuomo; Han Xu (also signed by Henry Kissinger); J. Peter Grace; Saul Bellow; Sir Edmund Hillary; Isaac Stern;

1990s: Alistair Cooke; Walter Cronkite (2) ; Philippe de Montebello; Elie Wiesel; Andrew Wyeth; Jonas Salk; Bill Cosby; Tom Wolfe; James Levine; Kurt Masur; Marilyn Horne; Rudy Giuliani (2); Arthur Miller; Bill Bradley; Kathleen Battle (2);

2000s: Renee Fleming; Yo-Yo Ma; John Glenn; John Kander and Fred Ebb; George Pataki; Sheldon Harnick; James Watson (2); Ellsworth Kelly; Everett Raymond Kinstler; Also present is a spurious signature of John Kennedy and a circa 1950s menu signed by Count Basie.