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...strongly in favor of such non-U words as greens for vegetables, wealthy for rich, sweet for pudding, and wire for telegram. Graham Greene complained that by Nancy Mitford's exacting standard, Henry James would have to be considered non-U because he once began a letter "Dear Margot Asquith" instead of "Dear Mrs. Asquith." Another reader pointed out that Shakespeare's Richard II was addicted to using the non-U mirror. Sniffed Novelist Mitford: "It is probable that Richard II, like many monarchs, was non-U. As for Henry James ... he was an American...
...smile, fascinating working girls, and murmuring sweet nothings to every Briton within handshaking range of his far-flying ZIS limousine. "Such a charmer," said the Daily Herald. "Irresistible," admitted a woman from the Tory Daily Sketch. Last week, between sending a Russian perfume called "Night" to Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and paying a visit to Karl Marx's grave in London's Highgate Cemetery, the adroit advance man for Khrushchev and Bulganin smiled unrlaggingly through a huge farewell press conference at the Russian embassy...
After getting her due at Buckingham Palace, Britain's top Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, all smiles, curtsied and pirouetted out to display proof of her honor, the medal of a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the title conferred on her in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors List...
...list, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II rewarded 702 Britons for their services to the Crown, produced only one surprise: no peerages to Laborites. Elevated to the Order of the British Empire: veteran (64) Thriller Spinner Agatha (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) Christie; famed Sadler's Wells Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 36; ailing, highbrow Author Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty, with Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...