It’s a minute past midnight in New York on January 1, 1954.
The partygoers include Rose Bampton-Wilfrid Pelletier Mr. & Mrs. S. Chotzinoff Blair Chotzinoff Mr. & Mrs. Yashia Merovich Guido Cantelli-Iris Cantelli Walter Toscanini & Cia Fornaroli Walfredo Toscanini-Miece Horzowski Wanda Horowitz-Arturo Toscanini.
Auld Lang Syne never sounded quite like this.
People knew how to have fun.
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