Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was the paperbacks that continued to make the biggest noise in the publishing world. Well before year's end, 270 million copies had been shipped to more than 100,000 outlets. While a depressing share of these were just penny-dreadfuls at a quarter, there was also plenty...
¶Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, by Marquis Adolphe de Chambrun. The impact of Lincoln on a sophisticated French diplomat, married to Lafayette's granddaughter, who was sent to Washington late in 1864; chiefly interesting for such minor sidelights as Vice President Andrew Johnson, a generally abstemious...
Married. Princess Atsuko, 21, third daughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Takamasa Ikeda, 25, well-to-do dairy farmer and son of the former Marquis Ikeda, who gave up his title after World War II; in Tokyo. The Princess' marriage to a commoner stripped her of an...
There was plenty of it. At 11 a.m. every day except the Sabbath for three weeks, there was scheduled a chamber music concert; at 2:30, a ballet or a performance by Monologist Emlyn Williams; nearly every evening, a concert by Britain's Royal Philharmonic* or one of five...
This French pastry has been served up with a rich helping of Technicolored spectacle as well as a good bit of overly rich dialogue and direction. The action includes a number of chases on horseback and a spectacular dueling scene in a candlelit Parisian theater, with Ferrer and Granger bounding...