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...photographer said he was more interested in glamour, elegance and social position than he was in pure beauty. And on those counts, Lee Radziwill, 30, handily qualified for Philippe Halsman's gallery of eight of Europe's loveliest women, which appeared in Paris Match. Winding up his six-week study of the ladies, he found Lee in her London home, popped her into a Castillo evening gown and clicked away. "She has an extremely interesting and beautiful face," he said afterward. But presumably not all that fascinating to the editors of McCall's, who had eleven months...
Orchids to TIME and to Photographer Halsman for including Madame Houphouet-Boigny among a gallery of reigning beauties. For the nation's colored races, it offers an example of "how to succeed in life without being Caucasian...
Arriving in Teheran, Halsman watched an army march-past outside the palace, and was surprised to see who was taking the salute: the Crown Prince, just 16 months old. Next day Halsman photographed the Empress Farah, whom he found "very young, pleasant, serious and timid...
Most queenly of the lot was Thailand's lovely Sirikit. Halsman, who has photographed more LIFE covers (90) than anyone else, believes that "to make a well-composed portrait, the photographer must control and direct his subject. This becomes rather difficult when the subject is a Queen!" When he left Sirikit, she told him: "It has been so nice that you did not make me at all nervous." Until that point, he thought he had been the only nervous...
...English bride was strongly opposed by the Queen Mother, and widely unpopular among the British-hating Palestinian refugees who comprise two-thirds of the population, but the King refused to change his mind. Muna, as he calls her, has yet to be named Queen. She was shot by Photographer Halsman not far from a cage filled with birds. Said he: "I felt she was like that...