Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first made public in the princely palace of Monaco. Shortly afterward, Jack Kelly confirmed the news to a small group of friends at a luncheon at the Philadelphia Country Club, and afterward to a thundering herd of reporters and photographers at the graceful mansion that Jack built himself. "Grace met him when she was on the French Riviera," confided the father of the bride. "She went there to make a picture called To Catch a Thief-and look what she came back with." Under the breathless guidance of an M-G-M pressagent, Grace and Rainier posed placidly...
...first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm promptly proposed the German Duke of Urach as a suitable heir. In the nick of time the prodigal prince came home...
...Grace on the screen. She seemed to fit exacting specifications for a bride (TIME, Dec. 26). So, "shortly after she arrived on the Riviera, we arranged a date. I told the prince," said Delaware-born Father Tucker, "that he could marry a commoner, but not a common girl." Grace met Father Tucker's specifications, too. In Chicago Grace paused briefly to give her own estimate of the situation. "Nationality," she said, "has nothing to do with love...
...office. At his headquarters villa, he said that the first order of business should be the convocation of Etats Généraux, a throwback to the ancien regime before the French Revolution, when the clergy, the nobility and the lower classes were the three estates who met to advise the King. "They will be formed by delegates of different social classes ... I hope that the government itself will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will be easy to do. In any case, the Assembly must announce its intentions very quickly...
...private passion is reading philosophy-Spinoza, the Greeks, the Bible, the ancient Buddhist writings. It is part of his search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...