Word: colonnas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distress of Rome's dolce vita set, the King and Queen have failed to live up to their advance billing as swingers. After they turned down an invitation to the Colonna ball, one of the year's biggest social flings, party-givers shied away from sending invitations for fear of being rejected. While the royal ladies recently ordered 15 gowns from the famed salon of Princess Irene Galitzine, the King has yet to appear in Rome in formal dress. Most of the royal family's social activity has been limited to the King's first love...
...loved the April Fools' gag a fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During his ten years as toothpaste salesman, he claims, Pepsodent leapfrogged from...
...vaudeville cronies, his brothers,- distant kin, in-laws of distant kin, acquaintances, agents and NBC ("30 unbroken years, and I've enjoyed every dollar of the relationship"). His wardrobe girl is an invalid who works from a wheelchair. He has seen to it that his old sidekick, Jerry Colonna, semipar-alyzed by a stroke, gets plenty of work...
...nearly a week, fox hunting in the nearby countryside, shopping at the high-fashion house of Princess Irene Galitzine, and visiting some of her other noble friends. In a cape and a white chiffon gown, she attended a dinner party at the 15th century palazzo of Prince Aspreno Colonna, next day bought toys for Caroline and John-John. Flying back to Switzerland to rejoin the family ski outing at Gstaad, Jackie took some other special gifts: a rosary and Vatican stamps that Pope Paul gave her for the children during a private 15-minute audience...
...developed engine trouble and had to flutter down blindly to a forced landing in a blizzard. This, if nothing else, gave a fascinating revelation of the seating order of Hope's entourage when he is on the move: the stricken helicopter contained Singer John Bubbles, Madman Jerry Colonna, Bandleader Les Brown, and only one female, Actress Janis Paige. Meanwhile, in the other chopper, were Hope, Jill St. John, Anita Bryant, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Ann Sidney, the British girl who is Miss World...