Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NELSON...
Best number: The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, a grand finale in which Nelson Eddy supplies what seem like several dozen voices and Willie, the whale with three epiglottises, panics the carriage trade as Tristan and Mephistopheles...
...grateful nation, which thought Emma Hamilton's rank little better than a whore's, took him at his word. To a respectable brother, the Rev. William Nelson, went an earldom, a 3,000-acre estate, Trafalgar, in Wiltshire and a pension of ?5,000 yearly to be paid to his heirs forever. To Emma went nothing; she died ten years later, a raddled and penniless old woman, in France...
...next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
...Angeles, on ABC's unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...