Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then send in the whole lot at the end of the contest. Each puzzle was a rectangular box in which letters of various sizes were arranged in an attractively confusing pattern. Underneath was printed a small clue: "This upstate village is a peaceful residential area. Its chief claim to fame is that than Allen and his troops slept here on the way to Ticonderoga." The solution was the name of a city, town or village in New York State...
...Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome's Countess Consuelo Crespi, Detroit's Mrs. Henry Ford II, Manhattan-Palm Beach Socialite Mrs. Winston Guest, Manhattan...
...some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former...
...Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting it. Wilhelm's finest trophy was Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, which Rembrandt painted in 1656, the year of his financial collapse and the beginning of his happy fall from worldly fame...