Word: blenheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assorted scientists (see above] in the Ocean Hall of Atlantic City's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel began to feel uncomfortably crowded, and the chairman had to rap for order as newcomers jostled for standing room. Clearly, they had not come to hear the speaker's closing remarks on "Protein Composition of Rat Uterine Luminal Fluid," but to be on hand for the American Physiological Society's next and daring paper: "Physiological Responses During Coitus in the Human...
...Basil, who wears a D.F.C., A.F.C. and four D.S.O.s, is popular with flyers as a leader who would fly anything they could. Promoted to a big command early in World War II, he led his Blenheim bombers on one more mission, was shot down over France. He slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general...
...They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew 100 patrols over grey, faceless ocean, with scarcely a sight of the British Blenheim bombers that were ranging the German coast. "We all live together as airmen, in a strange little world of our own, at the end of the runway...
Married. The Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), 25, heir to the dukedom of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace and about $5,600,000, first beau of Princess Margaret; and Susan Hornby, 22, wealthy socialite; in London (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
Last week, to earn some extra money for its upkeep and taxes, the huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present...