Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lest the picture of egocentric, overblown disk jockeys sketched in TIME [June 8] be thought typical by sponsors, neighbors and the Internal Revenue bureau, it should be categorically stated that most of us are (relatively) sober, mildly hard-working types, quite outside the pale of the play-for-payola crown...
WITH a passion few U.S. citizens comprehend, monarchical Canada scorns the republicanism of its neighbors to the south. "Our ideal, by right of inheritance, is the ideal of the King-in-Parliament," wrote Montreal Economist John Farthing, bluntly and articulately, in his book Freedom Wears a Crown. "It requires for its fulfillment the acceptance of initial loyalty to a sovereign as opposed to allegiance simply to a system of law. Anyone who does not find the first preferable to the second is out of place in Canada. He should be an American citizen, not a British subject." For the next...
...Crown has become the mysterious link-indeed, I may say, the magic link -which unites our loosely bound but strongly interwoven Commonwealth of nations, states and races...
...creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute a modern budget for the royal private purse. Stiffly the King demanded fresh funds to replenish his overdraft, grown to a reported $30 million. As stiffly, Feisal refused...
...Trouble struck swiftly as the field pounded through the final turn in the gist running of the Belmont Stakes, third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner...