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From Paris, Stockholm, Oslo, Rio, Copenhagen, Washington, New York, The Hague and other great cities of the world, official messages of sympathy poured in to the bereaved royal family. Salutes of 56 guns (one for each year of the dead King's life) boomed from Tower Hill, and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elizabeth II | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Hugh Troy's old friends found his latest enterprise fascinating. They remembered instances of other fascinating Trojan enterprises. In 1927, when he was living in Manhattan, Jokester Troy bought himself a park bench that was an exact duplicate of the kind used by the city. Then he had some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Trojan Enterprise | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

The Merry Widow--Everything shines but the acting in this modernized version of Franz Lehar's operetta. At the Shubert 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

One summer's morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Nell did not mind the inconvenience. She was one of the best-natured girls who ever took a king's mind off his country. In fact, she was such a trouble-to-nobody sort that posterity-even the proper Victorians-has been as uncensorious as the queen; "sweet Nell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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