Word: knighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selfless benefactor whose savings he increased and whose towns he rebuilt. To the Roman Catholic priests and friars whose works he aided, Giuffrè was, in the words of Monsignor Antonio Bergamaschi, Bishop of Montefeltro, "a generous soul open to any welfare initiative." The Vatican made Giuffre a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and the President of Italy honored him with the title of Commendatore. About the good works-the monasteries and Catholic Action centers, the reading rooms, town halls and houses-made possible by Giuffrè's money, there was no question. But there was one question that...
Round Table inherited his speed from his dam, an English mare with a fast past named Knight's Daughter, and his endurance from his sire, the rugged. Irish-bred Princequillo. Foaled on the Kentucky farm of A. B. ("Bull'') Hancock, Round Table was running as a three-year-old in 1957 when he caught the fancy of his present owner. A younger brother of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, with the same family paunch and financial punch (oil, uranium), Travis Kerr, 56, suspected that Round Table might become the great horse he needed for the mildly...
...Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates at the Royal Naval College at Osborne would on occasion ignominiously guillotine him in a partly opened window -in stern reminder of the fate of Charlie I, a King who stepped on too many...
...JOHN S. KNIGHT'S Editor's Notebook...
...that there was no longer anyone there whom the U.S. could rescue, the West's action turned into a holding operation in Lebanon and Jordan, bolstering the last few remaining leaders in the Middle East who had ranged themselves beside the West (holding two pawns, while losing a knight, the London Observer described...