Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guer! [Charlotte, we love you]," cried thousands of weeping, waving burghers, crowding around the palace, right across the street from the showrooms of the capi tal's chief undertaker. At 68 the longest-ruling monarch in Europe, Grand Duchess Charlotte abdicated in favor of her son, Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano, 43, who promised to strive to "ban all that remains of moral and material misery" in his domain...
...which began just after World War I, Luxembourg came to enjoy the highest standard of living in Europe. There is no unemployment in the duchy's 999 sq. mi., industry is booming, and $70 million in U.S. investments has gone into Luxembourg in the past decade. Grand Duke Jean and his wife, sister of Belgium's King Baudouin, should have plenty of time for their favorite sports-skiing, swimming and golfing...
Ambition brought him to New York, where the late George Jean Nathan, then theater critic for the Journal-American, helped him get a job on the paper in 1949. At the time, O'Brian had been the Associated Press's drama critic and sometime radio critic for six years. After a brief stint as a Journal-American rewrite man, O'Brian was assigned to do a radio-TV column. This was in the days when everybody who had a TV set was watching four to five hours a night and wanted to talk about it the next...
Others were quick to queue up. Jean Muir, also 30, bolted her stockroom job at London's Liberty's, moved in on the boom with a fanciful collection of narrow coats, smock dresses and knickers that nick off just above the knee. Sally Tuffin, 26, and Marion Foale, 25, the pop artists of the group, popped up with wild prints, impossible color combinations and a dress, called "Gruyere," with holes in its sleeves...
...circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...