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...camp and her name was Annie and so every time they'd have a songfest Annie would outshout all of them. So people got to call her Hootin' Annie but the name got spread all over and so out there when they are going to have a shindig they call it Hootenanny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hootenanny | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...authority. Last week, as his last official act before becoming Loan Administrator, Vinson handed down a ruling, setting up specific and narrow limits for the granting of such increases. C.I.O. and A.F. of L. promptly howled that the Vinson formula was "completely unworkable," rolled up their sleeves for a shindig. That brought a new figure into the play. Will Davis' place as WLB chairman had been taken by roly-poly, moon-faced Dr. George William Taylor, longtime vice chairman of the Board. Dr. Taylor, a professor of labor relations at the University of Pennsylvania, wasted no time putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Hold the Line | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Even big, international Colgate-Palm-olive-Peet Company was hit by flying fragments in Mexico's endless religious war. But as Mexicans went on battling last week (largely with words), the company came out of the shindig without wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Big Lather | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Dance Committee is at present busily engaged in selecting a suitable site for the shindig. An announcement as to the location finally chosen should appear here next week. As an extra added attraction the Messrs. Cross and Brunner will present one of their inimitable stage shows at intermission. Because the Danec is still in a sub-fetal stage complete details will not be available until a later date. Until then, look around and try to find some girl who will go with...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: *The Lucky Bag* | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

Then, while their wives cling to one another in a dreary hotel room, the boys zoom off for combat overseas. Winged Victory ends in the South Pacific, with a Jap raid that explodes upon a camp Christmas shindig, sends the flyers into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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