Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Greece's King Paul summoned the American Express chief to Tatio to make him a Knight of the Order of St. George in 1953, Reed for once overstayed a 15-minute appointment, spent an hour talking travel with the King. Reed was so proud of the decoration that for days afterward, whenever he spotted an acquaintance, he would insist on showing off his medal, exclaiming delightedly: "Look what I've got!" In addition to decorations from France, Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium, Reed was honored recently by the Five Flies, an Amsterdam restaurant, which installed a copper...
...Laurence and Cheesecake Marilyn! [Feb. 20]. The world is now crumbling on all sides of us! Britain's leading thespian has sold his cinematic soul. Surely this knight errant is jousting when he refers to Miss Monroe's hip-flipping talents as "ethereal." Perhaps a remake of Hamlet is proposed? If so, the event would truly be an occasion to make the Danes melancholy, for the dramatic climax would, no doubt, be Marilyn as Ophelia frisking about the lily pads clad in a bikini for a real razzle-dazzle death scene. At this point, the profit-sharing prince...
...born the year before Columbus discovered America, to a Basque family of impoverished nobility in Spain. As a boy he was a page at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, up to his young ears in palace intrigue and frivolity. He burned to be a famous warrior and knight. But when he was 14 a court intrigue misfired, and Ignatius went out to seek his glory elsewhere...
...three meter dive, however, Greg Stone turned in his best performance of the year to take a third behind Frank Knight of Army and Ron Keenhold of Lehigh. Yale's Doug Starkweather failed to qualify for the finals...
Italy's government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, made a Commander. Last week Cardinal Spellman also got a U.S. accolade: the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Gold Award for 1955, for his "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare...