Word: monarches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Jan. 21 People section refers to Maria Callas' impersonating Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut at a charity ball; if memory serves, beloved Queen Hatshepsut [1501 B.C.], as protection against retribution for being a female monarch, was herself forced to resort to disguise. Stone images exhibited in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art depict her wearing a beard. It would be interesting to know whether Miss Callas' impersonation was authentic to this degree. M. L. PENNEY Chicago...
...among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest in money as such, but proudly insisted musicians should be well paid as a measure of their worth. Though he sometimes acted like a savage...
...favorite mystery of nature lovers is the behavior of the showy, black-and-orange Monarch butterflies, which appear to fly south in fall like migratory birds. Many authorities have doubted that insects have the brains and endurance to make a real migration to avoid the northern winter. The strategy of most insects is to sit out the winter as eggs or pupae. Last week Dr. Frederick Urquhart, director of Toronto's zoology museum, told about a 19-year study that tends to prove that Monarchs do migrate...
...Urquhart, then a young zoologist on the museum's staff, began trying to label Monarch butterflies to find out how far they fly. He soon ran into tagging trouble. A label that sticks firmly to a Monarch's wing is apt to make it aerodynamically unstable...
...state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could be even bloodier. Churchill argues that ancient English liberties reposed in the monarch, the church and Parliament-but that Parliament, when it overthrew the others, could be a worse tyrant than either...