People, Aug. 25, 1980

No one noticed that the sculpted ice donkey had melted into something more like a beagle. For the bagpipes played and the booze flowed like the Boyne, and when a group named the Irish Bogtrotters crooned Danny Boy there was hardly a dry eye in the house. The O'casion? Tip O'Neill's party at O'Neal's Baloon, a restaurant near Lincoln Center. "I've been to every Democratic party in town and they all end up in bars like Rosie O'Grady's and O'Neal's," said the jubilant Speaker of the

House while jigging through the crowd. "These are all...

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