Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Deauville has been socially registered since Emperor Napoleon III learned the breast stroke there in mid-eigteenth century, it has remained France's most fashionable resort as a result of diligent handling by 42-year-old François André, France's biggest hotel operator. In addition to owning Deauville lock, stock and wine barrel, André owns the casinos, two hotels at Cannes and two hotels at La Baule as well as the biggest hotel at Le Touquet...
Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
Monaco's most pressing internal problem is, of course, whether Princess Grace is pregnant. In Paris Prince Rainier III kept his own counsel. But a correspondent for CIP, international Catholic news agency, reported that the Prince's chaplain, Delaware's garrulous Father Francis Tucker, had told all: "I see no reason to deny information which will soon be made official...
Married. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 26, only son of Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone Jr.; and Beverly Lou McFarlan, 23, small-town (Brooklyn, Ohio) schoolteacher; in Brecksville, Ohio...
Died. Alice Muriel Astor Pleydell-Bouverie, 54, four-times-married daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor (who went down with the Titanic), sister of Vincent, half-sister of John Jacob Astor III, onetime wife of Russian Prince Serge Obolensky; of a stroke; in Manhattan...