Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra and an assortment of behind-the-scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes. On a lofty bridge in the flies, 50 singers, an extra conductor, five harpists and 15 brass instrumentalists waited tensely for musical cues...
...screamed the Senators to victory (5-1) in the first contest, then groaned while the Yanks shut out the locals, 9-0. ∙∙∙ A modern innocent-abroad on his first visit to Europe, Utah's Uraniumillionaire Charles Steen, disembarked in England from the Queen Mary, announced that he had never before rubbed shoulders with so many unsociable snobs as his fellow first-class passengers. "My wife and I were not spoken to during the voyage by any other passenger," said he. "I got so desperate that I tried to horn in on a bridge game...
Born. To Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly Brinker, 22, blonde ex-Tennis Queen (1953 championships in Australia, France, England and the U.S.), and Gorman Brinker, 25, member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic equestrian team and San Diego State College student: a girl their first child. Name: Cynthia Ann. Weight...
...looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when the picture was taken, but she was talking to someone else (Queen Ingrid of Denmark), as the uncropped photograph showed...
Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his comely Queen Soraya winged into Madrid for what was billed as a four-day state visit. But Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco was not the notable they came primarily to see. On their very first day in Madrid, the Shah called in the dean of Madrid University's medical school, Dr. Jesus Garcia Orcoyen, an internationally renowned gynecologist, and asked him to examine Soraya. Apparently at stake was their marriage. After six childless years with Soraya, the Shah, whose only child is a daughter by his first wife Fawzia...