Word: london
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, Gypsy Rose Lee was known for her ability to tease more than she stripped. More recently she has made her name and fortune as a teller of tales. Last week in London, she told of vacationing recently in Yugoslavia when, at the wheel of a rented Rolls-Royce, she collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly...
Going on the auction block in London some time next month: an unused Jaguar, two Rolls-Royces, some antique furniture, Persian rugs and other oddments. Former owner: Iraq's late King Feisal, gunned down last year in Iraq's brief but bloody revolution...
...Young Men are oft directed at the Establishment, a currently fashionable name for that power elite of England's Top People who went to school and church together and now read the Times, rather offhandedly run the country, and-most important-mysteriously "keep in touch." Tongue in cheek, London's Queen Magazine last week published its own Establishment Chronicle, on the ground that things had changed since the simple old days of the Old Boy Network, whose members were quiet, not flashy, unruffled, unobtrusively powerful, never admitted mistakes, never resigned...
After 3½ years and nearly 1,500 performances of My Fair Lady in Manhattan and London, Musicomedienne Julie Andrews stepped out of the Cinderella role of Eliza Doolittle for the last time in London's Drury Lane Theater. Confessed Julie: "I never really got the part under control. I got very close to it sometimes...
Born. To Dominic Elwes, 28, free-spending man-about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary...