Word: baudouine
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...ended last week the four-month mental marathon that had accomplished the transformation of an egghead into a TV darling (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.). By failing to name Belgium's King Baudouin, Van Doren lost the game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English...
Twice during the long vigil, Belgium's young King Baudouin appeared at the pit head, the first time dressed as he was when he got the news, in sport clothes, the second time dressed in black. Shaking hands right and left, murmuring words of sympathy, Baudouin abruptly turned toward one of the grimy rescuers who had just come up from the pit, gripped his shoulders with both hands and said, "There must be some hope." The rescue worker, at the end of his strength, turned away and broke into sobs...
...good and will make him able to enter the presidential race." While in Brussels, Truman and wife Bess also got themselves up in go-to-meetin' attire, joined U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Frederick M. Alger Jr. in a palace visit with Belgium's young, informally dressed King Baudouin...
...Protestant Princess Margaret is considering marriage to Belgium's Roman Catholic King Baudouin, and sent Norfolk as her emissary to inform the Pope...
...diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) lawyer known as the "Little Lion," tough-minded Governor Petillon took as his authority a recent promise made by King Baudouin: "human relations have now to be tackled; economic development no longer is enough." Last month the Little Lion ordered all Congolese bars to admit Africans so long as they behave well and are properly dressed. When some owners refused to admit Negroes unless they first submitted to a medical checkup, Pétillon bluntly warned them to obey his decree...