Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...
...note of the increasingly strained relations between the royal family and Britain's newspapers, took both sides to task for this state of affairs. It suggested "an improvement in the quality and the supply of news" from the palace, urged newspapers not only to handle news of the crown "with discretion," but to stop paying palace servants for "offensive trivia." The Mirror, world's biggest daily (circ. 4,649,696) promptly snapped back at the "pompous" council for talking "nonsense...
...Kent included varying descriptions of the "birthday cake," though no cake was served. Editors argue that the public wants to read about human beings rather than the bloodless functionaries described in palace handouts. Britain's newspapers are still widely torn between deference and defiance in chronicling the crown. Last year, the lip-smacking Mirror gave almost a whole page to a peekaboo shot of Princess Margaret, in a low-necked gown, stooping to receive a bouquet. In the venerable Times, the royal cleavage, chastely camouflaged with an artist's airbrush, was squeezed into a single inside column...
Mike Williams-Thompson, a longtime government information officer, argued in a recent book that royal public relations should be taken away from courtiers ("men with built-in sneers"), entrusted to expert publicists. If press-palace relations continue to deteriorate, he warned, the crown cannot long "survive as a symbol of permanence in an all too swiftly changing world...
...scorning the poets' flxation on "Cross-tianity," Wilder questioned the historical accuracy of such forms of Christ's suffering as His crown of thorns and His whippings. Most of the morbidity which has become associated with Christianity is a survival of primitive legends, he asserted...