Word: attenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreement by Sept. 15, 1948, the matter would be turned over to the U.N. Assembly. Some weeks ago Moscow startled the Western powers with a proposal to have one last fling at the colonies before the deadline. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall agreed to negotiate but refused to attend in person. So last week in Paris the Big Four held a three-day conference on the Italian colonies. Moscow did not send Molotov, it sent the Foreign Office's No. 2 man, mercurial Andrei Vishinsky...
...Then, as I was getting into my dress clothes to attend one of the numerous receptions at the Club Centenario, a messenger showed up and gave me a small slip of paper with instructions to be at a corner of the Calle Estigarribia in the heart of downtown Asunción at 10 o'clock the next morning. There was no mention of whom I would meet there...
Juliana insisted that her daughters attend a public school, once instructed the headmistress not to "tell stories about fairy princesses or any stuff like that." The children have the Orange matter-of-factness. Recently, vacationing, Princess Beatrix grew impatient with a crowd of gaping local children. She presented herself on the porch of her parents' house. "This is how I look in front," she said, and turned. "This is how I look in back. Now go away and leave me alone...
Last week, over the granite towers of Balmoral Castle fluttered Princess Margaret's own new standard.* She was 18. Coming of age meant that she will have to attend more & more official functions (her first: Juliana's inauguration as queen next month). She will also have more freedom from family control on such matters as staying out late, wearing makeup, dressing smartly. Margaret dislikes her royal duties, though she enjoys the prerogatives of her station. When she was down with measles last May she remembered a young Highland officer of her acquaintance who had had measles...
...with a motherly chat on almost everything. Her co-chatter: daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Things were being arranged so that mother could broadcast from wherever she happened to be at the moment. Her first chat would probably be from Paris, where she was going next month to attend the UN conference. Accompanying her as her secretary: grandson Curtis ("Buzz") Boettiger, now 18 and lately an assistant producer (handyman) on radio's Bride & Groom give-away show...