Word: wingdinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 50,000 U.S. citizens, attending 66 celebrations across the nation (top tariff: $100 a plate), paid high tribute to Harry Truman on his 75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...
Out at the James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to...
Amid the jollity of a Dallas wingding, wise old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 76, plunked down at a handy piano with the boyish, mop-topped guest of honor, added an uneasy basso ostinato to the sure-handed treble provided by Van Cliburn. Texas-bred Van, drawled Sam, is...
Home for a festive Iowa wingding was Composer Meredith (The Music Man) Willson, who jovially greeted some 20,000 of the Mason City homefolks, grabbed a baton and proudly led a 208-piece band (with, naturally, 76 trombones and no cornets) down the main street, later uncorked lus ire at...
The people of Alaska were happy for themselves, too. In the Moose Hall on Franklin Street in Juneau, American Bar Association President Charles Rhyne (TIME, May 5) had just finished his speech to the Alaska Bar Association when a newsman slipped in, gave the news of the House vote and...