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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Elizabeth quickly relaxed before her admirers. Standing before 1,700 members of the capital's press corps (see PRESS), she began reading a prepared speech: "I am told that . . . this is one of the largest press corps in the world." Then she looked up, surveyed the multitude, ad-libbed with a generous laugh: "Looking around this room, I don't doubt that it's true...
Khrushchev's threats took shrewd ad vantage of a moment which found the U.S.'s Middle East position in temporary disarray. In its attempts to rouse the area to the threat presented by a Communist-dominated Syria, the U.S. had displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued...
...Star. Back in Britain, the Prince became a TV star overnight when the BBC asked him to drop by and give the kids a talk on the tour. Philip took a full 52 minutes telling about it (and thus set a new record for the longest ad lib broadcast ever made on the network). Skillfully cutting in films and slides on cue, the Prince rambled on about anything and everything. "I'm not surprised it was forbidden," he said, describing the horrid taste of a vegetable believed by those in the Seychelles Islands to be the original forbidden fruit...
...Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night." A perfectionist, Revson can talk for hours over the exact shade of red he wants in an ad...
...last week, insists that the Norman agency was dropped because it began handling a rival show, The Big Surprise. Snapped Martin: "Norman is just a mere infant, that's all. He should shut up." Whatever the truth, Charlie Revson and Norman did not get along. "Revson has good ad sense," says Norman, "but he has to be forced. The Fire and Ice promotion was put over his dead body, even though it was the best ad he ever...