Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Countries last week were running a low fever about their royal families. In The Netherlands, Queen Juliana took a dressing down in the press for inviting to her palace a crackpot U.S. space traveler named George Adamski (TIME, June 1). In Belgium, the newspapers fumed about ex-King Leopold, who was forced to abdicate eight years ago in favor of his eldest son Baudouin, but did not move out of the royal palace at Laeken or stop meddling in affairs of state...
...Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether or not he should return home. Leopold's supporters narrowly carried the day, but so many riots greeted the King's arrival in Brussels that within a year Leopold surrendered the crown...
...King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithridates...
...normal standards of American slapstick, featuring a Skelton in every closet, this is the lightest, flakiest brand of pie in the eye. But as performed last week by imported British Comedian Dave King in his first show as Milton Berle's TV summer replacement (NBC, Wed., 9 p.m.), it seemed tasteful and gratifyingly fresh. A comedian who works primarily in pantomime, King is a kind of Jack Tati in his characterization of the well-meaning Englishman who really could cope with life except for the fact that the world itself is a little out of kilter...
Only 29, Dave King bumped around in his teens as an electrician's and plumber's helper. He played in troop shows for the R.A.F., parlayed a 1954 one-shot on the BBC's Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October...