Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple's 30th wedding anniversary, a much delayed invitation arrived from Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II would be pleased if the Duke and Duchess of Windsor could come to England from the U.S. to attend the dedication next month in Marlborough House of a memorial plaque to the Duke's mother, the late Queen Mary. It was, said the palace, strictly a family affair. Nevertheless, it marked the first time since his abdication and marriage that the British crown has taken formal recognition of the former King's twice-divorced American wife-though the Duchess...
...measly 2,238 for former British record holder Chu Chin Chow). Since opening night in 1952, more than 2,000,000 people have bought tickets to the tiny (435 seats) Ambassadors' Theatre, and 97 actors have peopled the play's eight roles. "Just about everybody in England has seen it except the Queen," says Producer Peter Saunders, "and she thinks she's seen it." Author Christie, 76, has given no interview on the subject since 1961, claiming that she has run out of things to say. Small wonder. Believing The Mousetrap good for about a six-month...
Died. Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), 74, U.S. dramatist and one of the firsi to see the American stage as a vehicle for social criticism; of pneumonia; in Southampton, England. Short, peppery and prolific, Rice despised the frothy shows so in vogue during his youth ("I'm interested in being realistic about life") and used the theater to get his strident views across. Over the years, he bitingly attacked everything from fascism to automation, theater critics, social smugness, TV blacklisting and militarism in more than 50 full-length plays. Only a few of them (1919's On Trial...
Died. John Masefield, 88, Britain's Poet Laureate since 1930; in Abingdon, England (see THE WORLD...
...people, has hired retired stewardesses in 30 cities, sends them out to recruit younger girls. In Boston, John Hancock Life Insurance Co. advertises for secretarial help on rock-'n'-roll radio stations, brags that its main office is near "the grooviest shops in town." Competing New England Mutual Life Insurance will pay an employee $25 for persuading a friend to join the company, another $75 if the friend stays for a year. Avis rent-a-car uses prime-time television to advertise for car washers...