The Gold Plate Dinner which honored 175 U.S. servicemen from throughout Asia and marked the 30th anniversary of the United Service Organization featured evening entertainment by British actor Sebastian Cabot, best known at the time for his role of valet/butler on the TV show Family Affair. Cabot would later become an in-demand voice actor, voicing various Disney characters such as Bagheera in The Jungle Book, Sire Ector in The Sword and the Stone as well as the narrator in various Winnie the Pooh movies in the 1970s.