Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retreat to the Queen. Mills, in his first important test since he became Ways & Means boss last January, reckoned without another House chairman with rank as imperial and voice as loud. When the Democratic version reached the Rules Committee for processing, Virginia's cautious, wily Howard Smith took one look and decided he didn't like it. Too many votes were stacked against him for Rules Chairman Smith to pigeonhole the measure alongside other pieces of legislation that have displeased him in the past. But the bill, when the Rules Committee voted it out for consideration last week...
...dissident Southerners. Minority Leader Joe Martin caucused the Republicans, kept them in line behind the Eisenhower version of the bill. As debate opened at midweek, Republican strength had become so obvious that Sam Rayburn gave up the battle and ducked off to Virginia to crown Her Majesty, the queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival...
...person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores, went home only when Pianist Oscar Peterson, in desperation, played God Save the Queen...
...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize...
...dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...