Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson has made a success out of calling odd people or faraway places to entertain his estimated 120,000 weekly listeners on station WIND. What's the weather like in Miami? Larry the Lege will call the Miami weather bureau and find out. Do the papers say that Princess Margaret is taking a salary cut? Call Buckingham Palace...
...took over, all England seemed addicted to a BBC radio program called The Goon Show, which was the making of Actor Peter Sellers, among others. When the Goons got together again to do a special program for the BBC's 50th birthday, Sellers brought four "friends": Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Princess Anne. Another royal Goon fan, serving with the navy in the Mediterranean, sent his regrets: "Last night my hair fell out, my knees dropped off, and I turned green with envy at the thought of my father and sister being there. Charles...
...former Prime Minister John Gorton describes as "one of the greatest fun evenings I can remember." On a cruise off Queensland on the royal yacht Britannia, "people decided that everyone else ought to be thrown in the water," says Gorton. Prince Philip was thrown in, and then Princess Anne. I was sitting beside the Queen. I was about to throw her in, but I looked at her and there was something in the way she looked back...
There is nothing like an infusion of royalty to raise money for a good cause. Princess Alexandra of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lent her aristocratic presence to a dinner dance at Manhattan's Americana Hotel, and the infusion was further strengthened by the presence of Film Star Cory Grant. The result was a happy stamping ground for some 1,200 of New York's upward mobility set and a gratifying take for Variety Clubs International, which aids handicapped and needy children...
...guns are used in 65% of all U.S. killings. Twenty percent of the victims are dispatched by knife, while poison is rarely used. In Manhattan, there have been two recent cases of murder by bow and arrow, and some years ago another New Yorker attempted murder by rattlesnake. As Princess Sita observed in Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic of nonviolence: "The very bearing of weapons changeth the mind of those that carry them...