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...Tongans made certain that Tupou IV could keep up his strength. From all over the kingdom's 150 islands, they flocked in outrigger canoes and launches to the week-long ceremonies at the capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among...
...romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Masefield thought of his laureate role as "a happy duty," though such eminences as Dame Edith Sitwell called his official paeans "dead as mutton." One penned to mark a trip abroad by Queen Elizabeth...
...good audience is an entity, a rather mutton-headed mass which is readily swayed, will laugh--and cry--easily. A good performance transforms a thousand individuals into one monster: the audience," Guthrie said...
...marriage had endured nearly three years, which was approaching the average time that Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 54, had spent with her six previous husbands. So naturally, when Babs left Tangiers a few weeks ago without No. 7, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh, 50, gossips assumed that the five-and-dime princess was making a change again. "Untrue," the prince said blandly during a stopover in Manhattan on the way to rejoin his wife at her $3,000,000 walled estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. "All that gossip started in Tangiers, a small town where they have nothing else...
...nothing for me!" are rapidly fading. From the U.S. collections, a woman can find something sparkling and appropriate for an embassy reception or dinner at the Colony-done in the elegant American style. Counsels Vogue's Diana Vreeland: "The days of fashion dictatorship are dead as mutton. Each of us has the opportunity for everything -to dress with individuality, suitability, gaiety, comfort, chic. You have only to take the opportunity-to use the New York collections for all they are worth...