Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ducal Rhubarb...
Reading LIFE in 1945 in the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor was impressed by the understanding of Britain shown in a series about his old friend, Winston Churchill. The Duke had a mutual friend call up Charles J. V. Murphy, now a LIFE staff writer, a big, ducal-looking Bostonian who had written the article (with John Davenport). The friend's suggestion: the Duke of Windsor and Reporter Murphy ought to know each other because "the Duke is thinking of doing some writing himself." The result of the delayed meeting (Murphy first spent six months in the Pacific...
Hatless, her curls flying, she motored to the Associated Press office near the Puerta de Alcala. When her black Cadillac convertible (with ducal escutcheon enameled on its door) halted, a taxi pulled up just behind. From it hurried two men in the typical trench coats of the secret police. They blocked Luisa Maria's way. "Duchess," one of them said, "you must come along with us. The chief of police wants to have a talk with you at once...
...picturebook town with medieval houses and a ducal castle, Celle is about 20 miles from Hannover. It had kept its traditions even through the Third Reich. With the coming of the airlift, Celle's burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where...