People: Jul. 1, 1966

Eight million people were invited to the blast; mercifully, only 35,000 of them could make it. Still, it was quite a party on Central Park Mall when New York City turned out for the season's first Guggenheim Memorial Concert. The band tooted out such swinging numbers as The New York Light Guards Quickstep and The New York Hippodrome March for the turn-of-the-century stomp. Then, too, there was a catchy little act by a couple of beblaz-ered vaudevillians, Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, who went around tipping boater and bowler at...

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