Word: frown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of an annual four-day festival. While other faiths may frown, the Mormons encourage dancing between couples lest the Devil find other work for them. Each of some 1,400 Mormon chapels holds a dance every Saturday night-including a floor show during intermission to undercut any inclination couples may feel to wander off by themselves. The result is that the Mormons are easily the dancingest denomination...
...teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize went to U.S.-trained Jaime Laredo, still a week short of his 18th birthday and the youngest...
...royal nines, glowing, velvet-eyed Princess Soraya, 26, ex-wife of Iran's Shah, paid a formal call on the proud old Roman family of the man whom the gossipists keep saying she will marry: handsome, unwealthy Prince Raimondo Orsini, 27. But Vatican and Iranian court circles frown on the romance, and Raimondo's low income seems no match for Soraya's high tastes. The betting of Romans in the know: no wedding...
Inevitably the press-conference talk got back to the third member of the triangle. What if Debbie continued to frown on a quick divorce? Her interlocutory decree, obtained in Los Angeles, still had almost a year to run before it was final. "Debbie was very much hurt at first," said Elizabeth Taylor, out of the wisdom that comes from many a wilted romance. "I think the hurt has now left, and that she will consent to Eddie getting a divorce here." Having reassured both herself and her public, Liz left for her $500-a-week quarters at the Hidden Well...
...which last week announced an emergency grant of $6,000,000 to meet Haiti's budget and trade deficits through September. Money is vitally needed; because of poor crops, the causes of death in Haiti this year will include outright starvation. The grant is also a frown from Washington on all plans for invasion and backyard...