Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lester trotted to the mike, allowed as how he was very pleased to be playing before such a wonderful crowd and for such a noble cause (a clinic for child guidance, the need for which was amply demonstrated during the course of the evening), and proceeded to his music ("the order of the day"). After running through a pleasant little medley of Lester Lanin favorites, L.L. brought his musicians to a halt and turned around to accept the fervent applause of the appreciative multitude. There was no applause. Lester thanked the audience anyway, and, rather embarrassed, went back...
Robustious Breed. Winner he was, six years ago, the beneficiary of a name and a spirit which has burned over his chunk of Southwest desert even before it became the Arizona territory. In the 1860s Big Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall...
While a six-piece combo whanged away, dukes and duchesses danced alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Hollywood's Mike Romanoff. The dueling balletomani-acs, the Marquis de Cuevas and Serge Lifar, were almost friendly, and Angry Young Man John Osborne giggled at the fun. Dame Margot Fonteyn turned up along with Gracie Fields. At midnight, when Bea Lillie, alias Lady Peel, arrived, the party reached its peak. Someone peeled off his dinner jacket; someone else pushed him into the pool. A fully dressed couple staged an underwater race. The bar closed at 2 a.m., but 35 cases of whisky...
...When Mike Todd, Liz Taylor's third husband, was killed in a plane crash last May, Debbie and Eddie were on hand to help console her. The Todds and the Fishers had been good friends (although in retrospect last week, Debbie made a fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press...
...feelings she had had about him at the other party . . . and as his eyes met hers she realized he was thinking about it too. For an instant the spark arose between them again, and her heart began to pound. She was filled with a sweetness mixed with sadness. Mike leaned down and kissed her very lightly on the lips. 'Merry Christmas,' he said softly...