Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five months older than Margaret), Tony Armstrong-Jones is slender, volatile, charming in manner, and not very much taller than his bride-to-be (5 ft. 2 in.). He is not stuffy, and not particularly intellectual either. His flat in unfashionable Pimlico has a laundry on one side and an antique shop on the other, and his friends come chiefly from bohemian Chelsea, Fleet Street, and the theater and fashion world. For two years Tony's great and good friend was a sloe-eyed Chinese model named Jackie Chan (now playing a "yum-yum girl" prostitute in the London...
...what Princess Margaret will be called after her wedding. One solution would be for the Queen to ennoble Tony, but short of this, precedent dating back to 1503 (when Cecily, daughter of King Edward IV, married Commoner Thomas Kymbe) would seem to offer but two alternatives to the bride: she can either call herself Lady Margaret Armstrong-Jones, or H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Mrs. Armstrong-Jones. As for Tony, he would then remain plain Mister, and their children would grow up titleless...
Once More, With Feeling (Stanley Donen; Columbia). "Wouldn't you like to slip into something loose?" Yul Brynner purrs seductively to his bride. "Yes," Kay Kendall snarls. "A taxi...
Toppled Throne. Despising the chamberlains as "stoneheads," the Japanese people look to young Prince Akihito, 26, and his commoner bride, Princess Michiko, 24, as the monarchy's last and best hope. The proposed visit of the young couple to the U.S. in May (Michiko's first child is expected in March) has been taken as evidence that when Akihito mounts the throne he will not become a prisoner of the chamberlains like his father. Thereupon the seven chamberlains urged postponement of Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June...
Sportswriting was fun, but Reston, partially prompted by his bride, longed for greater things. "In dull periods," he said, sports reporting is an insufferable bore." In one dull period, he wangled his way onto the A.P.'s London bureau, where curious combination assignment, half sports and half Foreign Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy...