Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prison Bound. It was no surprise therefore that Maine's dwarf-sized duchess believed herself to be a fairy princess. She nearly beggared the Due trying to make the fairyland divertissements at their chateau in Sceaux out rival the splendors of Versailles. As Louis XIV aged, she relentlessly drove her unwilling Due into the struggle over the succession. And under the regency of the Due d'Orleans that followed, she plotted with the court of Spain to put Maine in power and got her helpless husband thrown into prison on charges of treason...
...back." He and his second bride, the former Mrs. Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, planned to settle down in Rocky's Pocantico Hills estate, then take a get-acquainted tour of New York State. As the Governor stepped toward a waiting car, somebody called out: "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor said they're happy for you." After reflecting for a moment on the implications of that,+. Rockefeller called back: "That's very nice of them...
Heavens Above! dresses Peter Sellers -who at one time or another or simultaneously has been a truculent union leader, a dotty dowager duchess, an energetic young soldier, a slimy American playwright, and an earnest Hindu doctor-in round collar and benevolent simper, and makes him a vicar. Sellers gets better and better even if his movies do not. Cinema spoof British-style keeps searching farther and wider for ideas, and audiences have only to consult the credits for proof: this film was based on a conceit of that self-ordained iconoclast, Malcolm Muggeridge...
...divorce from Louise, the duke married Mrs. Sweeny. Last week in Edinburgh, the Toppers too were divorced. Their decree. 65.000 words long, took the judge. Lord Wheatley, 4½ hours to read through. It was no Cole Porter lyric. On the basis of the evidence, declared the judge, the duchess, now 49, "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied by a number of men." He named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self-confessed wolf" with "the morals of a tomcat"; Harvey Combe...
...Special Way. The expected August addition to the White House family was much on the President's mind last week. Bestselling Baby Doctor Benjamin Spock was among the guests at dinner for the Grand Duchess. And when Kennedy stood in for Jackie as host at a brunch for congressional wives, he assured them that Jackie, too, "is engaged in increasing the gross national product in her own special way." As for Jackie, she had flown to New York, where she paid a surprise visit to the Metropolitan Opera House to see a performance by London's Royal Ballet...