Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born into a Protestant Irish family in Ulster, which had given generations of its sons as army officers and civil servants to the crown. Casement was raised in County Antrim and eventually joined the foreign service. A handsome bachelor, he spent nearly a third of his life in Africa, and while serving as a British consul in the Belgian Congo exposed the brutalities imposed on the natives by the administrators of Belgium's King Leopold...
...volume, earned $17 million on sales of $796 million (including excise taxes). Edgar figures to raise the total soon to $1 billion. "There's a little heat from my father to do it," he says. While supervising the U.S.'s two bestselling whiskies, Seagram's 7 Crown and V.O., Edgar has become a strong believer in market research, "but not as a substitute for intelligence." And every day he sits, sips, and selects blends with his master blenders...
Long Musing. The surrogate Shaw then wrote The Troubled Air, a weakly novelized tract about witch hunting in broadcasting, and two ladies' novels, Lucy Crown and Two Weeks in Another Town. The present novel appears five years after Two Weeks in Another Town. The wait was worthwhile; it is only the novel that...
...American Bill Bradley led Princeton to a 107-84 win over Cornell Saturday night, as the Tiger avenged their only league loss of the season and clinched the Ivy crown, Bradley scored 33 points, hitting 62 per cent of his shots from the floor, and passed superbly throughout the game...
...coronation took place in a Los Angeles saloon. The proprietor slipped up to the bandstand, playfully popped a tinseled paper crown on the young singer's head, and decreed: "King Cole!" The title stuck. And so, for the next quarter of a century, did Nat King Cole, right at the top as one of the most captivatingly popular crooners of all time. No one was more amazed at his enduring success than Cole himself. "My voice," he would say wonderingly, "is nothing to be proud...