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Word: heiresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21. Europe's reigning royalty was conspicuously absent, but 180 lesser bloods crammed into the small Russian Orthodox chapel, where only three seats were set up-for the three onetime monarchs among them. While Bulgaria's ex-Queen loanna and Albania's ex-Queen Geraldine democratically declined to use theirs, Farouk sat down in lonely, perspiring splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Surgery for Persephone | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...Henry Ford II, an angel of the Detroit Symphony; IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr.,* and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who solved the Met's union contract impasse (TIME, Sept. 8). The grandes dames were out in force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: An Evening with Casals | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...rare kind of satisfaction. The two roads first began to talk merger in 1957, but two years later, just as they were about to settle on terms, Perlman coldly called the whole thing off. Said he: "Before we marry the girl, we want to make sure no other heiress is around that might fall into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Return Engagement | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Married. Athina ("Tina") Livanos, 31, handsome, Greek-born shipping heiress previously married to Maritime Magnate Aristotle Onassis; and John George Vanderbilt Henry ("Sonny") Spencer-Churchill, 35, Marquess of Blandford and heir to the loth Duke of Marlborough; both for the second time; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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