Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears of Their Serene Highnesses, and swiftly came unserene Grimaldi revenge: Norah and her free-spending third husband, Sir Bernard, were banned from the tiny (½ sq. mi.) country, and their christening...
After watching Britain's Prince Philip and his team of Welsh Guards gambol through a polo match, U.S. Embassy Secretary Elizabeth Davis (granddaughter of the late Norman H. Davis, an F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis...
...Paper Profit. In a handsomely printed three-color booklet, Sulzberger laid out the financial anatomy of the U.S.'s No. 1 newspaper and its countingroom history for the past five years. Most startling news revealed by the report: from 1953 to 1957, fully 53% of the robust Times's profits came not from publishing but from papermaking-a 42% interest bought in 1926 in the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd. in Toronto, Ont., which supplies two-thirds of the company's high-quality newsprint. With such a solid profit foundation, the Times had seven-figure nets...
...usual, the relay will be a decided tossup, with Penn, who finished second to Yale in the Penn Relays last week, rating an on-paper edge...
McCloskey emphasized that the Sophomore test would not require rigid preparation, but would be either an examination or a paper, geared to each student's specific interests...