Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screams by Tea Time. Whether Parker had quit to protect the royal household, whether the Duke had sacked him, or whether the Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until...
...their black-type indignation about the plight of Commander Parker, the British press was slow to recognize the gossip about the royal couple themselves, in which Mike was involved at about the third-paragraph level. Out of London one day clacked a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Mayfair Set Correspondent Joan Graham, reporting that Britons were troubled by whispers "that the Duke of Edinburgh had more than a passing interest in an unnamed woman and was meeting her regularly in the apartment of the court photographer." By London's teatime the Sun's sensational story was splashed...
...years about the Duke's high jinks, particularly at parties given by his bohemian cronies of the Thursday Club, which included Parker. U.S. tabloid correspondents dug up "palace sources" who said that the royal household was disturbed about rip-roaring stag parties at the club, and had dropped Mike Parker so he would not be around to encourage the Duke to go Thursdaying. Other correspondents, however, found sources who said that the real trouble involved parties that were not always stag...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
Peter Boyce won two in foil but dropped the third to a troublesome Big Red southpaw. The lefty also won one from Mike Klapper, but the junior won his other two. Captain Hubert Hocutt's performance was particularly disappointing, as he lost two before Bill Trebilcock replaced him in the last bout...