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...managers purred happily as they scanned supper-room bookings, filled up solidly to Christmas. A wholesale caviar merchant reported "our best year ever." Dance pianists, even not very good ones, were demanding and getting as much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Merrie, Merrie England | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...these are only minor niches in a smooth and very humorous production. An evening at Winthrop's Mikado is good fun, with only a "punishment of innocent merriment...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: The Mikado | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

...four nights before Christmas, and all through the Senate Office Building in Washington, there was merriment and song. The bell ringer of the 1948 Republican National Convention. Ohio Senator George Bender, was giving a Christmas party; a newsman recited a parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Night to Howl | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...thing, the Editors realize that their elders have probably lost the genius of spontaneous good times. Bearing the world's weight (and possibly the expense of our education) for twenty-five years has, perhaps, dulled the sense of merriment that allows one to seek out his own amusement. Our elders must be led in pleasure as they lead others in business. So much for the objection to the organizational aspects of the five-day regimented spree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virtue, Motherhood, and '30 | 6/15/1955 | See Source »

...daily newspaper Sangyo Keizai's building. Out stepped Edgar R. Baker, managing director of TIME'S international editions. Quickly, pretty Takarazuka girls presented him with a bouquet as thanks for TIME'S story about Takarazuka (in Music, Jan. 3), the city whose principal industry is innocent merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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