Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...
Cinemactress Gene Tierney and Aly Khan (who was divorced last January by Rita Hay worth) were winding up a three-week holiday at his Irish "hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory...
...just lost a college blood-donor contest to California Polytechnic, thought May Day would be a good occasion for a blood-donor campaign, too-and the theme became "bonds and blood." A parody of a bristling, Soviet-style May Day was ruled out in favor of a purely American holiday. "We wanted to show what Moscow, U.S.A. has," explained Chamber of Commerce President Del MacPherson. "It might be corny," added the regional T-man, Edward Reese, "but it's still fundamental...
...last week, Aso's crater swarmed with sightseeing students and city dwellers on holiday. In the crowd were 39-year-old Police Chief Kunihiro Shikura and his three-year-old son, Chitose...
...first he had to break his holiday to make a crowded, one-day round trip to Washington to deliver his foreign policy speech (see above) before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. And on the eve of his departure, he fell prey to that humiliating and painful malady-a severe case of upset stomach. There was no telling exactly what had caused the attack-although it seemed likely it was set off by the savory, highly spiced bass dish the President ate for lunch-but he suffered sharp abdominal pain, and slept little. Next morning, when Mamie bade...