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The Newport wingding was further evidence that jazz is enjoying its biggest boom in years, with record sales soaring and nightclubs sprouting new jazz acts all over the country. A crowd of 6,000 fans jammed into Newport's dingy old open-air Casino for the first-night concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cats by the Sea | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Dean, as in all his recent pictures, gives the impression of a man consciously restraining an enormous talent in order to give his partner a chance, but Jerry, for a change, has done a little work on his part. He has a real wingding with Sheree North in a jive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Last week's communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bali Ha'i-By-the-River | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Neither party has yet decided what sort of a show to give on election eve. The Democrats formerly used Hollywood and Broadway stars, but this year, says Frankel, "we don't plan any wingding-even though the talent is gratis, the production cost is murder."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Campaign | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

"Of all the mysteries in the fraternity system, none is more inexplicable than the complete disappearance of the fraternity man . . . after his graduation from college. No managing editor was ever heard to say, even in a Hollywood film : 'Lead the paper with Himmelfarber's story-he's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Memoirs of an ex-Greek | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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