Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn-of-the-century Paris. The libretto, by Dramatist Robert de Flers, was kept deliberately naive-building ironic contrasts between text and music. The plot is constructed around a country girl, Ciboulette, who is in love with a count who is in turn dazzled by an actress. In Act III, the country girl becomes an actress herself and the count's eyes are opened to her beauty...
...radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border, and bring him face to face with Adoula. Guaranteed safe passage, Tshombe agreed to fly-in President Eisenhower's old Columbine III-to the meeting in Kitona, a sweltering settlement near the mouth of the Congo River on the Atlantic...
...original building in St. James's to "Versailles in the days of the Grand Monarch.'' It was a favorite haunt of politicians, and the Duke of Wellington instinctively repaired to Crockford's when he tried to form a new Cabinet in 1834. The future Napoleon III was holed up there when an emissary came to offer him the crown of Greece (he turned it down...
Three mighty collections in progress for historians and readers of history: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Volume III), edited by Leonard W. Labaree; The Adams Papers (Volumes I to IV), edited by L. H. Butterfield; and The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (Volumes I and II), edited by Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke...
Divorced. By Jenny Ann ("Pia") Lindstrom, 23, honey blonde daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Fuller Earle Callaway III, 29, heir to a Georgia textile fortune, whom Jenny charged with acts of extreme cruelty, including pushing her down a staircase "in front of guests"; after 22 months of marriage, no children; in San Francisco...