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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

With those details accomplished, Frank McMahon, 55, went on to the business at hand. From Texas and Montreal, from London and Manhattan, McMahon had invited some 400 bankers, oilmen, businessmen and their wives to a razzle-dazzle two-day blowout in celebration of the link-up of his Westcoast Transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Tycoon's Wing-Ding | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Covering the Mediterranean waterfront for the Hearst press, Elsa Maxwell tersely laid the scene of a Stavros Niarchos wingding-"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"-pounded out the hard news with dispatch-"It was too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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