Word: knighthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir Charles Richard Fairey, 69, burly, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) British yachtsman who founded (1916) the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., built seaplanes and fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw a Fairey Delta 2 jet push the world's official speed record for conventional planes to 1,132 m.p.h.; of a heart ailment; in London...
...Knighthood in all its panoply was on display again last week in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. To the delight of youngsters and oldsters alike, the Met's armor collection, second only to the great European collections in Vienna, Madrid and Paris, was back after five years in storage and on loan while the collection's ten galleries and corridors were being renovated. There was no doubt that the armor had been missed; up to 2,800 visitors a day thronged the main, banner-decked central court, to see the pick of an array that ranges...
...knighthood came to full flower, the well-equipped knight needed as many as six suits to fulfill his ceremonial and battle functions. His armorers replaced the earlier painted decorations by designs etched with acid, a technique used on armor long before it became an artist's medium. On his jousting armor, they added elaborate horned devices and feathered plumes, cushioning his stallion with heavy velvet "peytrels," i.e., chest protectors, and bedecking his lances with ribbons...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). When Knighthood Was in Flower, with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns...
...mark the restoration, a Harvard-Yale jousting meet should be scheduled, highlighted by the coronation of President Pusey. He, in turn, would create an order of knighthood among the professors, with teaching fellows and instructors as squires and pages. During the celebrations, the Jester and Fools of the Lampoon might even be entertaining. Such romance and pageantry would finally justify the restoration of that awesome structure--Memorial Hall...