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...Mama," she asked, "do all these people belong to me?" "No, my child," replied the Queen-Regent, "it is you who belong to all these people." It was a hard lesson for a strongwilled, privileged little girl of ten to learn, but Wilhelmina learned it well; long after her abdication in 1948, the people to whom she belonged continued to refer to her affectionately as "the Old Queen." Last week, at 82, the Old Queen died in her sleep at Het Loo, the palace where she had spent her first years and her last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Caged No More | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Civil War generals such as the Union's George B. McClellan and the Confederacy's P.G.T. Beauregard were once officials of the line. The real-life Casey Jones was an I.C. engineer at the turn of the century: "Casey's daughter fell on her knees / 'Mama, mama how can it be / Papa got killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Toward a Broader Gauge | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...Maya Plisetskaya, who looked pretty funny in her woolly leg-warmers. But two hours of Bolshoi can be tough on the best behaved little girl, and Caroline got a mite fidgety. She struggled out of her pink sweater, kicked her red Mary Janes back and forth, wriggled up into Mama's lap, stretched and yawned. Finally Caroline piped: "Doesn't anybody ever eat around here?" Whereupon Jackie fished into her purse and came up with a piece of foil-wrapped candy . . . Next day, during a tour of the White House, the whole troupe got to meet Caroline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Coach Bruce Munro's varsity soccer team takes on Amherst today at II a.m. on the Business School said. Despite the fact that this will be the Crimson's third game in seven days, the squad is remarkably healthy. Only Emmanual "Mama" Boye is ailing, with a slight ankle injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters to Battle Amherst | 10/13/1962 | See Source »

...Mama O gobadaddy Hot And so forth what A combol When they get together Like this to the tune of Such music drives you Out of your mind Absolutely so what's left What else can you Expect by Twisting Twisting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Winners | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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