Word: astride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already! He is almost as big as a Premier!" When Baudouin was four, his grandfather Albert slipped on a mountain crag. The mourning bells for the beloved monarch were among the first impressions in the boy's mind. A year later, his mother, radiantly beautiful Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident on a vacation in Switzerland (the King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned to his country home at Stuyvenberg. His three children were playing on the lawn: Josephine-Charlotte careening down the paths on her bicycle, five-year-old Baudouin in panting pursuit...
...session, Soprano Astrid Varnay offered to spend her free evenings baby-sitting and turn over the money to the Metropolitan Opera Fund. The idea, she said, "came to me in a flash." She even had a good word to say for her babysitting technique: "Treat them like grownups. I usually tell them little stories about my friends and things I have been doing...
Born. To Leopold III, 49, dethroned King of the Belgians, and his second wife, Mary Liliane Baels, Princess de Rethy, 34: their second child (his fifth), a daughter; in Brussels. Name: Marie-Christine Daphne Astrid Elisabeth Leopoldine. Weight...
...singers did their best to make up for all that. For U.S.-trained Astrid Varnay, The Dutchman was a chance to prove again that she really belongs at the top, and opulent-voiced Soprano Varnay (as Senta) proved it. For German Baritone Hans Hotter, 41 (the Dutchman), it was a brilliant debut. A onetime choir director with a big, barreling but expressive voice, huge (6 ft. 4, 223 Ibs.), handsome Baritone Hotter filled the stage, both vocally and visually...
Clandia Phelps Wilds '52 of Alken, South Caroline, will replace Virginia Ogden '50 as Briggs Hall president. Elizabeth Astrid Trygstad '52 of Clearwas Beach, Florida, is new social chairman...