Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Bessie Love Merryman, 100, the Duchess of Windsor's dowager aunt and her constant chaperone throughout the royal courtship, a hard-boiled Yankee who advised Edward in the midst of his dilemma between Cupid and crown, "You can always marry someone else; you can never again be King"; in Washington...
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Among others, Smith conferred with a photographer friend as to the best means of making big money from the princely essays. British publications were out because of an unwritten agreement with the crown to ignore the private lives of the royal children. Smith sent cables to U.S. and European publications. He got a quick telephone response from two men speaking broken English who claimed to be representatives of France's Le Figaro. Smith met with them at a lonely spot outside London, and when he showed them the royal jottings, the two identified themselves as Scotland Yard detectives...
Died. Jimmie Dodd, 54, impresario of Walt Disney's TV kiddie show, the Mickey Mouse Club, from its beginning in 1955 to its finale in 1959, who proved beyond doubt that youth is a state of mind by wearing his "mouseketeer" ears like a crown and praising patience, protein, and Brussels sprouts as if they were the show's sponsors; after a short illness; in Honolulu...
...saved the fall's best new television series until after the election. Profiles in Courage, premiered last week and based on President Kennedy's book, proves to be a bracing antidote to the plethora of two-dimensional teledramas in which tinsel laurels automatically crown the good guy. Adult in theme, effectively written and excellently acted, the series will for 26 weeks focus on characters from American history, many obscure but united by a common bond-their willingness to risk and if necessary sacrifice their careers for their ideals. Happily scheduled for early Sunday evening, a prime kiddy viewing...