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Royals and commoners had a rip-roaring time. Highlight of the pre-nuptial festivities was a wingding for 2,000 guests in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Bra ', Bonny Bride And a Fortune Fair | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

"France can keep Mona Lisa. Sweden can have Ingrid, Italy can keep Gina. Monaco can keep Grace. Washington doesn't need them." And why not? "Because," drawled Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, "we have Lindy Boggs." TOSSing a wingding of a birthday party for vivacious Lindy Boggs, wife of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1963 | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

The night after the Democrats' $100-a-ticket wingding (TIME, Jan. 25), Coe walked into the hotel suite of Musical Comedienne Carol Channing and her husband, Producer Charles Lowe, expecting to have dinner with them. But Lowe was on the phone to the White House. The President's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Unhousebroken | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Taking over a state that has been declared a depressed area in 56 of its 67 counties, William Warren Scranton, 45, attempted to bring some austerity to Pennsylvania's traditionally gaudy inauguration ceremonies. He showed up wearing a business suit rather than the usual cutaway, held the inaugural parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What a Time | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Ogled Oligarch. Juliana's top-ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Hiep, Hiep, Hoera! | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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