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...airport, the planes were buzzing in again, bringing guests for that night's Auchincloss party and taking guests from the night before off to Manhattan for a quick comb-out before hurrying back to Newport. The hairdressers imported for the weekend were downright frantic: Hugh Harrison from Claude's was kept busy all day at the Bogerts, and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel III (who gave a tea dance at their house that afternoon) supplied a man from Kenneth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: The Big Weekend | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Paul Schmidt, as Fadinard, was also largely responsible for the shortcomings of the performance. Labiche created a part that could be played many ways; Schmidt's totally distraught, rather weak and frantic bridegroom is not one of them...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: 'Italian Straw Hat' at Loeb | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...Frantic old pirate trying to forget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems: The Moods of Summer | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

Like the overturning of a deeply embedded rock, the Profumo scandal caused a frantic scurrying of a great many odd human insects. One of the crawliest figures to emerge was that of Peter Rachman, who may, or may not, be dead. Last week press and Parliament were abuzz with his sordid story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Saga of Polish Peter | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...swarming with excited men who periodically would rush out to surround a cringing dignitary as he emerged through Ikeda's front door. Shoving, pushing, often pummeling its victim into speechlessness, the throng would shout at the man for a few minutes, then, its business done, make an equally frantic rush back for the tents. Was it a circus or a riot? Not quite either. It was the Tokyo press corps covering a Cabinet shakeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Covering It like a Tent | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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