Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Credit is due H. Henry Franck's interpretation of the town crier and Paul Fithian's performance as the gullible schoolmaster. M. Mousquet is only sketchily defined by Jack McGrail, and the succession of rural bumpkins who fall for Knock's prescriptions emerge from the clinic like so many neatly packaged sandwiches from an automat...
...uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, ex-King Umberto of Italy and Europe's two other leading pretenders, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's Dom Duarte Nuño. Notably missing: the Windsors of Great Britain...
...world with such leaders as Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon; Ismail el-Azhari, first Premier of the independent Sudan; and Premiers for Iraq, Syria and Jordan-thus acting as a major catalyst in the rise of Arab nationalism. But last week, as it inaugurated its fifth president-John Paul Leonard, former president of San Francisco State College-it confronted in that very nationalism the greatest challenge of its history...
LONDON'S TALLEST BUILDING, a $12 million, 34-story, 700-room luxury hotel, is planned by Conrad N. Hilton and British Millionaire Charles Clore. Towering 380 ft. over Hyde Park, 14 ft. higher than St. Paul's Cathedral, building would be taller than city's conservative codes now allow, but is expected to win official approval because of hotel shortage...
...Died. Paul Starrett, 90, co-founder (1922) and longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...