Word: alexandra
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...Alexandra A. Lichauco '51 and William S. Tyson '51 defeated MIT last night at Tech on the topic: "Resolved, That the U.S. Nationalize all basic non-agricultural industries...
...Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where the Windsors bumped into another exiled royal couple, King Peter and Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia...
...masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer. She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around...
...desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more of a bop fan than a young Southern beauty of 1900. Regina destroys the last and most, effective scene with an interminable haughty posc...
...Buckingham Palace last week, Princess Margaret found her desk piled high with invitations. London's fourth society season since the war was just rounding into the straightaway and there was,a heady catalogue of entertainments in the offing: a huge ball for the twin daughters of Lady Alexandra and Major E. D. ("Fruity") Metcalfe, a rout at the Guards' Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday, such...