Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present the French cancer society with a $10,000 check from the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss...
...Guests: Duke & Duchess of Windsor...
...Duchess of Windsor, which was painted for the Duke in 1939. An average Brockhurst portrait takes about eight hour-and-a-quarter sittings, plus extra time for hands, backgrounds, diamonds, chiffon evening gowns, lace and medals. Because "she had an unusually mobile face and looked different every time she came to sit," it took Brockhurst twelve sittings to paint the Duchess...
...story Cathay building, Singapore's only skyscraper, is aglow nightly with a Broadway-style electrically lighted advertisement of Esther Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in four-hour sittings. This week's favorite; Bomba, the Jungle Boy. The dance halls, puppet shows, Balinese dancing-girl acts, shell games and other enticements of the "Great...
This winter Russell began singing informally at supper parties. At the Byron Foys, Russell's singing pleased the Duchess of Windsor. "She said I reminded her of Harvey [the rabbit], and she would call me Harvey," Russell remembers. With such an accolade, Russell's party-singing flourished. Among the many hosts and hostesses who have invited him around are the Windsors themselves. "The Duke's quite a person," Russell says. "I sing The Surrey With the Fringe...