Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment, to which he is exiled (and where blonde Joyce Matthews...
When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents...
Barrels That Fly. The fact is that the Swedes are jolly glad to have stayed out of World War II, and intend to stay out of any World War III. At the same time, they are building up their defenses...
...George III who coined the cynical phrase, "Every man is good enough for any place he can get." Two centuries later, the grumpy king's observation fits the theory of government often used in Harry Truman's Administration of George III's former real estate. A good recent example: the association of Donald Dawson, still the White House patronage dispenser, and his two good friends, William E. Willett and Francis P. Whitehair...
...Through his father, Victoria's uncle, the bookish and liberal-minded Duke of Sussex, who outraged King George III by marrying Lady Augusta Murray, a commoner. The old king declared the marriage void under the Royal Marriage Act. The son took one of his family's ancestral names, d'Este, and never tired of trying to win recognition from the British Court. He was fobbed off with a Hanoverian knighthood...