Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondents to France were in Monaco, goggling at Grace Kelly and her Prince (see PEOPLE), when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council met in Paris last week. On the agenda was a surprise item of high importance: a letter from President Eisenhower to Lord Ismay, NATO secretary-general, asking that General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (TIME, Feb. 6) be released from duty as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe near the end of 1956. Gruenther's retirement from his NATO post and active service in the U.S. Army was assigned to "personal considerations." The council agreed with "great regret," asked...
...Breaks My Heart." Since 1951 Wilhelm has operated his ranch at a net loss of from $1,000 to $1,500 a year. "I really don't see how we're going to pay off our land, at least not in our generation," says his wife, Grace. A calm, friendly woman of 43, she does the work of a hired hand at lambing time, philosophically shrugs off such things as the fact she has never been able to buy carpets for the concrete floors of their ranch home. "The thing that breaks my heart," she says...
...liner Constitution hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed, dockside trolleys klaxoned, cannon fired 21-gun salutes. Ashore, the crowd-Mone-gasques, outlanders and the cream of world jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with...
...Quite Frightening!" Through it all, Grace was unruffled, cool, completely gracious, although she was endowed with a bride's right to dissolve into tears, screams or a hysterical combination of both. "I wish people would be more considerate of each other," she said in an accent that is neither Philadelphia, London nor Hollywood, but seems to have traces of each. "The way you are stamping on each other-it is quite frightening." But she never stopped smiling, and all the while three dimples showed in each cheek...
...When the sergeant was a boy, his father died of drink; the boy's feelings, already numb with shame, were frozen fast with fright when his guardian, a religious fanatic, told him that his father had gone to the Devil, and that there, but for the grace of God, he would...