Notes From The Berkshire Hathaway 50th Anniversary Meeting

Berkshire Hathaway's 50th Anniversary Gala notes - thanks to a reader for sending these,

OMAHA, May 3 -- It was a generally mild morning for the Berkville at 50 gala except for oddly threatening flashes of lightning over the insane lines that stretched all around the Century Link Center by 6:30 a.m.

By 7, when the doors open, they had doubled back on themselves and taken up the opposite sidewalks on adjoining streets. Those who thought they could saunter in around 8 a.m. to catch the movie at 8:30 were hit twice -- by a drenching cloudburst and, wandering around vacantly in soaked shirts, a full house.

Although the building has been full in recent years, there was generally a...