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...remarriage. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore invited the non-U foursome to join a reception at the embassy and, with Lady Ormsby Gore, escorted them down the long staircase to meet the assembled guests. When the door prize turned out to be a Beatle album, Ringo presented it to the winner with a cheerfully irreverent aside: "We can get you a Frank Sinatra for the same price...
...playing, caterwauling teen-agers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, eleven crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop waiters, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good pressagent," chirped Ringo. (They have 17.) And how about the Detroit movement to stamp out Beatles? "Oh, we have a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit," said McCartney reasonably...
...Beatles opened with a fast-moving "All My Lovin," and immediately afficionados sensed something wrong; Beatle George Harrison, down with laryngitis, wasn't singing. But Ringo Starr was making up for it with a superb performance on the sticks and cymbals...
...like students of If-. Says Beatle Spokesman John Lennon, 23: "The day the fans desert us, I'll be wondering how I'm going to pay for my whisky and Cokes." The other Beatles-Guitarists Paul McCartney, 21, and George Harrison, 20, and 23-year-old Drummer Ringo Starr (who wears four rings on his fingers)-are also keeping their heads. "We're not interested in living it up," says Ringo. "All our money goes into Beatles, Ltd., and we take only enough out for clothes and a few ciggies...
...preparing yourselves mentally"), and slackers found themselves heading out of town on the evening train. "Don't cross me," Lombardi warned Quarterback Bart Starr. "If you cross me a second time, you're gone." Self-pity provoked only scorn. "When Lombardi came," recalls Center Jim Ringo, "I told him I wanted out. I said I wanted to play on a winning team. He looked at me and said, 'This is going to be a winning team.' You know his voice. You know his eyes. If he said so, I knew it must be true...