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Originally a trombone player, McCoy says he switched to trumpet when his trombone slide kept knocking off ladies' hats during choir practice at the Methodist Church in his home town, Portsmouth, Ohio. In the '30s, Bandleader McCoy was a consistent winner of a jazz-magazine poll labeling him "The King of Corn." The title never bothered...
...Portsmouth, H.M.S. Vanguard, last of Her Majesty's battleships, fired a salute. Cannon roared at Windsor and Cardiff castles, and as far away as Gibraltar and Accra. Over Buckingham Palace the Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...
CYRUS EATON STOCK DEAL to consolidate Eaton's Portsmouth Corp., an investment company, with Detroit Steel Corp. (No. 15 in U.S.) is being negotiated. If stockholders and SEC approve deal, Eaton, 76 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1959), will become chairman of Detroit Steel...
JAMES G. H. MITCHELL Portsmouth...
...each member could be completely certain that every other member was a "gentleman." Initiation fees are $500 for Americans (500 shillings for Britons because they are "poorer"), plus a yearly subscription of $60. Current membership includes Sir Winston Churchill, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, and the ninth Earl of Portsmouth; U.S. Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson, Everett M. Dirksen and John McCormack, and a clutch of film notables ranging from Clark Gable and John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down...