Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt. Son James, 51, California Democratic Congressman, reminisced about a sweltering summer weekend when F.D.R. was entertaining Britain's late King George VI and now Queen Mother Elizabeth at Hyde Park. At Roosevelt's suggestion, the King and the President climbed into bathing attire, drove off toward a nearby swimming pool along a road lined with U.S. and British Army guards. Spotting a clutch of photographers with cameras at the ready, the King abruptly shouted: "Stop the car!" "Why?" asked F.D.R. "I don't think," grinned His Majesty, explaining that he wanted no photographs...
SECRET ROLLS-ROYCE, new patrician-precisioned model called Phantom V, is being developed in Britain. Now built only for select few, e.g., Queen Elizabeth, eight-cylinder car is expected to be in commercial production by early...
...lyrics for Broadway's The Most Happy Fella, the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, and scores of popular songs, including Baby It's Cold Outside, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, On a Slow Boat to China; and Actress-Singer Jo Sullivan (real name: Elizabeth Josephine Jacobs), 31, who played Rosabella, the mail-order bride, in The Most Happy Fella; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...become less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper in a drama of love, war, and deception, there is a chorus strutting about occasionally, singing things like "Prepare to fight with skill and might," and a priestess (attractively played by Elizabeth Theiler) going through a mystic ritual-dance...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...