Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailing vessels last week nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall...
...lights are dim around the huge horseshoe bar, and the many couples leaning together, heads filled with beer and good bourbon, make the room even darker. There is a dance later, at which no liquor is allowed...
...King of Morocco got a few pointers last week on how to be a king from a man who very much wants to be one. As Mohammed V explained his plans for spreading more democracy throughout his land, his distinguished guest. Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, Comte de Paris, great-great-grandson of King Louis-Philippe and pretender to the throne of France, somewhat nervously interrupted...
...agency's other memorable copy: a plug for Israel's El Al airline's new, faster Britannia plane service, with a picture of the Atlantic Ocean one-fifth torn away ("Starting Dec. 23, the Atlantic Ocean will be 20% smaller"); its challenging ads for Ancient Age bourbon ("If you can find a better bourbon, buy it"); a Max Factor lipstick ad showing the Colosseum and a pair of fiery eyes staring from a Roman Senator's bust ("Any man will come to life when you wear Roman Pink...
...newest and most successful museums to face the problem is Italy's Capodimonte National Museum (see color page), an 18th century palace outside Naples that was built for the Bourbon kings in 1738 and reopened only last year as a treasure-filled art museum-100 galleries lined with canvases by such old masters as Bruegel, Goya, Mantegna, Masaccio and Titian. In converting the palace, Naples' Art Director Bruno Molajoli faced not only the staggering task of cleaning and identifying some 600 stored paintings (including two Correggios found in a case marked "rubbish"), but also laying out a modern...