Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Couture Group announced the supreme fashion leaders in its annual international poll to uncover the world's best-dressed women. Among the past year's chosen few: Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their...
...Police Constable Reginald Oakes was crawling in total darkness along a 12-ft. plank that linked two window ledges in London's bombed-out Alexandra Hotel. At one window, trapped in the ruin of their bedroom, were a shoe manufacturer named Davies, his wife and two panicky daughters. At the other, Constable John McKenning did his best to hold the plank steady; a concrete courtyard yawned 45 ft. below...