Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a Paper Crown. When Nat made his fall debut on NBC, he recalled, "They were kind of worried about our rating in the South, but it's just as good there as any place else." Yet the show is still unsponsored, and Producer-Director Bob Henry believes that the potential sponsors have been held off by unwarranted fears about the color problem...
...novelist (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and dramatist (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People), Irwin Shaw has set no worlds afire. But there are few American writers who can match him for consistent readability and excitement in the field of the short story. His famous The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) says nearly all that there is to say about urban love; his vengeful Sailor Off the Bremen, after 18 years, is still powerful enough to make a reader wince. This new collection never quite reaches the same heights, but is similarly concerned with love and adventure, is written...
Remedy for Consumption. James sent Coke to the Tower of London, from which he was released primarily because his imprisonment weakened the prestige of the Crown. "Throw this man where you will," growled James, "and he falls upon his legs." Within three years James was dead, Charles I on the throne-and three years after that, Coke was back in Commons to participate in what has been called "the crisis of Parliaments." Said one member: "We shall know by this if Parliaments live or die ... Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Up stood Coke, 76 and full of "sturdy...
...Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a crown living (an ecclesiastical appointment at the dispensation of the government). He also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there is a legend...
Several times a week he visits the palace, which counts for a good deal in Iraqi politics by reason of its currently close ties with the army and the suave intriguing of Crown Prince Abdul Illah. (Unlike his cousin Hussein in Jordan, 22-year-old King Feisal is not yet a force in state decisions.) The old Pasha also visits his Defense Ministry desk, but these days his greatest interest is lavished on the work of the Iraq Development Board, which he watches over like a proud mother...