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WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...talk of old times at Ozuki, the Divine Wind two decades later was barely a zephyr. Eying a row of modern U.S. trainers on the familiar runway, Shipyard Salesman Tatsuo Suzuki, 43, wished that "our planes had been as good as these in those days." Ah, rasped Hotel Manager Jumpei Watanabe, "if our planes had been this good, we wouldn't be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Return of the Samurai | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...warmest greeting of all was given to Zephyr Wright, the Johnson family cook for 23 years. "Oh, Zassie," said Luci, "you look so pretty. I love your dress." Much was made of Zassie's fried chicken and spoon bread, without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Unusual Ceremony | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Luci, the last few months became a blurred montage of interviews and photographs, of last-minute domestic tips from her mother and from Cook Zephyr Wright, of shopping excursions in Manhattan and Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...tell me you want to lose weight, and yet you never do very much to help yourself. Now I am going to be your boss for a change. Eat what I put in front of you and don't ask for any more and don't complain. Zephyr." Staring direly at Lady Bird, L.B.J. declared: "Now if arrogance of power is anywhere, it's in your kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Saying, Doing, Being | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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