People: Jul. 5, 1963

A six-piece band played old Hungarian gypsy songs, and some 300 society sports quickly got into the spirit of things at the Imperial Room restaurant of Manhattan's Delmonico Ho tel. Owner S. Joseph Tankoos Jr. wants to build a new restaurant, so he threw a smashing party that fairly broke up the old joint. Actress Anita Louise specialized in throwing trays of glasses; Fashion Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on....

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