Word: princess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selection was made by Mom and Dad. but Japan's bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked...
...gilded age when sables were a princess' best friend, the nation's best place to buy sables was Manhattan's C. G. Gunther's Sons. Founded in 1820 by a German immigrant associated with Fur Trader John Jacob Astor, Gunther's not only combed Siberia for the finest sables, but bid in the London market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made...
...PRINCESS ZINAIDA SHAKOVSKOY...
...above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
After weeks of woolly press speculation that she would marry the 39-year-old Shah of Iran (TIME, Feb. 2), Italy's tall, lissome Princess Maria Gabriella, 19, at last had her own say on the matchmaking. "I'll never marry a man I do not love," she told Rome's II Messaggero. "Since I do not love him, I will not marry the Shah of Iran, assuming he has indicated such a wish." But the press quickly offered another candidate: suave, blond Don Juan Carlos, 21, son of the Spanish Pretender, who danced attendance...