Word: liz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more beautiful than ever, Hostess Elizabeth Taylor had just made her hush-provoking entrance when a crisis faced her. A party of 15, variously described as headed by a Brooklyn dentist or a merry widow, who had seen the earlier show, refused to make way for some of Liz's guests...
...good nor awful. He belted out such numbers as Another Autumn, Wish You Were Here, Let Me Entertain You in a loud, clear voice, without much style or emotional variety. But he was an undisputed smash with the customers who packed the Empire Room night after night, long after Liz, the Prince and the stubborn Brooklyn dentist had departed. Having lost his TV show in the furor over his divorce from Debbie Reynolds, and suffering chronically from poor record sales, Eddie Fisher seemed to be making a comeback...
...Premier sat down for lunch between them. Mrs. Khrushchev, carrying a bouquet of bird-of-paradise flowers, sat beside Frank Sinatra, opposite Bob Hope and David Niven. Before them stretched a glittering panorama of jewels, dyed hair and suntans of a Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into a bumbling, emotional, unscheduled debate about how each had risen from their poorboy origins under their respective capitalist and Communist systems. Skouras scored the best line-"Your country is the greatest monopoly the world...
...mayors, pressing throngs surged forward, fairly overran the 2,000 city police who were assigned to guard the Queen. "That's a lovely billy-I'd like to borrow it some time," cracked Prince Philip to a Chicago cop as he eyed the yelling people. "Hi, Liz!" they cried. "Hey, Queen!" That night at a glittering dinner (with gold tablecloths, gold service, 50,000 roses) given by Mayor Richard Daley, the Queen confessed happily: "This has been an unforgettable...
...comes naturally. Since her coronation in 1953, she has traveled 80,000 miles, far more than any other monarch in history. In 1954 she survived the loyal ecstasy of a million Australians in Sydney, who broke police lines eight times to surround the royal motorcade, shouting "Good on you, Liz and Phil!" She went to Ceylon even though nationalist agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors and accepted the homage of such local chieftains as the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta...