Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
...perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...
Nothing, vowed impetuous young Carol, would induce him to renounce Zizi. But Ferdinand thought he knew a way. The King had his courts declare his son's marriage null, banished Zizi, had the son she had borne declared illegitimate, and cut off Carol's allowance. Outflanked and outmaneuvered, Carol jot ted a note to Zizi protesting his eternal love for her and admitting the parentage of their son; then he dutifully married Princess Helen of Greece...
...years that followed, Queen Helen bore Carol a properly royal son, Prince Michael, who twice reigned as King of Rumania. Carol himself tired of Helen and took up with a Rumanian officer's wife named Elena ("Magda") Lupescu. Carol was banished, returned to rule for ten years, and was banished a final time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared...
Last week in Lisbon, where Carol had his last legal residence, Mircea got the recognition his mother had longed for. At the conclusion of a suit brought by Mircea Lambrino, a Portuguese court formally declared him to be a true and legitimate Hohenzollern, entitled, along with his stepbrother Michael and his stepmother Magda, to a fair share of Carol's estates, villas and funds. The only problem left was how to talk Michael and Magda out of the money...