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...illuminated document bound in red calf, a medallion on a ribbon, and $1,190 in cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill the Provocative | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...curtain of Manhattan's City Center opened on a ballet set-a large, white Chopin medallion suspended like a full moon against velvety blackness- but the first figure the audience saw, a hefty man in swallowtail coat, headed across the stage to play Chopin on a grand piano. Yet it was a ballet after all, a new one called The Concert. Made up of Choreographer Jerome (Peter Pan) Robbins' irreverent ideas of what might go on in a listener's wandering mind during a musical evening, it turned out to be the funniest farce in a blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fun at the Ballet | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...candy-sucking bobby-soxers, a long-legged young thing who practically climbed into the piano in her love of music (Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq), a bored couple and, finally, a young fellow who trampled all the other concertgoers while trying to find his seat. At that point the Chopin medallion zoomed up into the flies and madness descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fun at the Ballet | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Kansas turkey and an 18-ft. Christmas tree, of his three grandchildren caroling O Come, All Ye Faithful for a crowd of press photographers; of his First Lady, in a red dress, showing off one of the presents she received before church on Christmas morning, a gold-star medallion inscribed on one side "To Mamie" and on the other "For never-failing help since 1916-in calm and in stress, in dark days and in bright-Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: South to Key West | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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