Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liner Constitution hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed, dockside trolleys klaxoned, cannon fired 21-gun salutes. Ashore, the crowd-Mone-gasques, outlanders and the cream of world jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with...
Greatest of Dresden's art patrons was Augustus III (1696-1763), both Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, who lived for art, was willing to spend as much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna...
...James Crane Kellogg III. 40, senior partner in Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, biggest firm of Stock Exchange specialists, was nominated to be chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Almost certain to be elected next month, he will succeed Harold W. Scott, who is resigning because the job (principal duty: liaison between the Board of Governors and the permanent staff under President Keith Funston) takes too much time from his business activities. Kellogg went to Williams College for two years, quit at the age of 19 to start in Wall Street as a runner. He moved onto the stock exchange...
Henry W. Abbot. Jr., Verdi L. Barnes, Walter M. Belenky, David M. Brahms, Henry M. Brown, Asaph B. Churchill, John W. C. DeKiewiet, Nathan P. Dodge III, James J. Doty, David K. Gately, William V. Gillen, Albert F. Gordon (captain), Joel R. Landau, Carl A. Pescosolido Jr., David S. Rosenthal, James E. Schlaeppi, David C. Spinney, William T. Thompson III, Frederic B. Washburn, Richard L. Williams, Jr., William B. Dockser (manager...
Louis M. Bell, John R. Eastling, Robert R. Foster, Edward L. Francis, Jr., John Noble III (captain), David M. Skeels, Paul S. Striker, Richard F. Sullivan, Paul R. Toulmin (manager...