Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself The Shape, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission...
...sure I shall be one of several to call to your attention your error in TIME (Dec. 11) in the picture of the Italian notables. In your asterisked explanation you say: "On his [Crown Prince Umberto's] left is Count Sforza." Sorry, but Count Sforza, whom I have the pleasure of knowing very well, is at the extreme left of the picture, beyond Bonomi...
...Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This was a royal strike without precedent in Their Highnesses' relations with the Crown. Promptly the session was cancelled...
...well-bred walkout was reportedly the Viceroy's intention to modernize the administration of India's many petty states* in line with "changing times." Sensing a slight to their sovereignty, the princes were indicating their alarm at the "tendency to alter the States' relationship with the Crown." Some of the ruffled rulers even talked of "browbeating." Most sulked in their, princely mahals (palaces...
...Ofori Atta was a stout, pious, blue-black man who ruled over Akim Abuakwa on Africa's Gold Coast. London knew him. Once he visited King George V to be knighted for his services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul...