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...wooly-minded TIME editor who characterized Walter Stace's attempt at a solution of the problem of moral standards as "wooly-minded," an onion. To Princeton's clear-thinking Professor Stace, an orchid...
...little hootenanny, opening his $21 million Shamrock hotel (TIME, March 21), turned St. Patrick's Day in Houston into a Donnybrook. McCarthy's 2,500 guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped...
...funeral-which Harrison attended with his wife to show gossips they were not "rifting"-was a splendid affair. She was buried holding an orchid in one hand and wearing two on her dress...
Weather & Orchids. For his safety record, Stan Kennedy thanks the weather (usually perfect for flying) and a heavy emphasis on maintenance, which works so smoothly that planes are often "turned around" at airports in five minutes. Moreover, his 54 pilots, most of them hand-picked war veterans headed by ex-Navy man Charles I. Elliott, know their routes as well as motormen. (One of them breaks the monotony of the same old daily run by scattering orchid seeds from his plane...
...wedding, which began in front of the Guests' fireplace at a minute after midnight on St. Valentine's Day. She had picked the dress to have "something old"-she had bought it a week before. Her stockings were "something new," her handkerchief "borrowed" and her orchid "blue." Rockefeller wore a tan gabardine suit. His voice sank as he made the responses. Bobo answered clearly; the Presbyterian minister omitted the word "obey...