Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story at first seems to be a French Alice in Wonderland, but soon ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton...
...Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, arrives in Jamestown, Va. (after four days in Canada) to begin her first visit to the U.S. since her accession to the world's loftiest throne, the same personable troubleshooter will be there to shatter the sometimes forbidding ice of majesty with the impact of his own easy personality. He is the Queen's husband. Prince Philip, and he will play a considerable part in the success (or failure) of a royal diplomatic mission whose underlying purpose is to help restore to its old warmth the U.S. public...
Another Roman Catholic blow at the held hand and the shared ice-cream soda (TIME, March 11) came last week when Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne warned the 70,000 parochial-school children in his diocese against the "pagan" practices of "going steady, keeping steady company, necking and kissing." Warned the prelate: "Any boy or girl who persists will not be allowed to hold any position of honor in a school-and will be expelled, if necessary...
Beanballs & Bats. The Yankees found it a sad and ironic way to learn something new about the slim (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) man with the ice-blue eyes who had come up through their farm system only to fail as a Yankee starter in 1950. The next year they had been only too happy to toss Burdette into a $50,000 deal to get Pitcher Johnny Sain from the Braves as pennant insurance...
...victim, just before his death, told the police that the prisoner had approached him with an ice pick and stabbed him without justification. The defendant, however, said the victim had come at him first with a knife. It was only to defend, himself, the prisoner insited, that he picked up an ice pick from behind...