Word: queen
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...Year in 1938. Nor is a symbolic figure ruled out: the American Fighting-man was the choice for the Korean War year of 1950 and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter was chosen for 1956. There have been two Women of the Year-Wallis Warfield Simpson for 1936, Queen Elizabeth for 1952-and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek shared the cover with her husband on Jan. 3, 1938. The Man of 1957 was Nikita Khrushchev, and for 1958 it was Charles de Gaulle...
Increasingly seen as a front woman for Britain's royal family, pretty Princess Alexandra, 22, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, who went out barefooted and in slacks in Australia last summer (TIME, Sept. 14) was far more formal last week when she attended a Brazilian Chamber of Commerce banquet in London...
...front of his typewriter. They festoon him with homely metaphors and Yiddish phrases and good, bad and indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry Golden not just to rally round him but to render him homage...
That the adapters should so much magnify what everyone in the play is quick to minimize is proof of their desperate need for dramatic material; Golden's queen of spades is their one theatrical ace in the hole. Only in America has, certainly, its lively moments and amusing details, but it chiefly conveys a sense of stretching already flimsy materials-of building small incidents about Negroes or Jews into unctuous minority rites. Clearly the basic trouble with Only in America is that it should never have been a play. But the thought persists that only on Broadway, with...
...Queen's Tutors. Some fairly surprising personal views emerge from Russell's book. His aristocratic father had wanted him brought up an agnostic. Orphaned at three, he was made a ward of Queen Victoria's court, but all the Queen's tutors and all the Queen's nannies couldn't put Bertrand's faith together. By the time he left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell...