Word: lensmen
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...friend. To newsmen, Miller confided that he needs a passport by July 13, the day that Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe flies to London to begin work on The Sleeping Prince with Sir Laurence Olivier. Reason: "She will go as Mrs. Miller." Later in Manhattan the lovebirds billed and cooed for lensmen outside Marilyn's apartment house...
...first public outing with Grace, the Prince rolled forth in his green Chrysler Imperial, was roadblocked by some 50 photographers, angrily retaliated by barring the lensmen from his palace and Wednesday's civil wedding (the religious ceremony is two days later). Wedding gifts kept pouring in, karat upon karat. From the principality itself and the Casino came, according to Newshen Inez Robb, "some basic or all-purpose diamonds": a $224,000 set of gem-crusted earrings, bracelet, necklace, ring and clips...
Olivier (deadpan to the emboldened lensmen): "No leg pictures of Miss Monroe, boys. From now on, she's too ethereal...
Communist and U.N. cameramen opened up on one another. In some cases the lensmen closed to a yard or less; one Chinese movie cameraman got so excited that he fired for half an hour with all three of his lenses capped. Some of the Communists relaxed to the extent of returning a smile. But several refused U.N. cigarettes and one turned away to spit on the ground...
...iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days, and the record...