Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Derek Torrey Winans '60, acting secretary of the group, said that the State Department had called yesterday afternoon to say that the Syrian crisis and the visit of Queen Elizabeth would prevent Herter from leaving Washington...
Curtsies & Quips. The Queen of Canada arrived in Ottawa on a brisk, clear afternoon, flown from London in 13½ hours. Smiling, more poised than during her 1951 visit as a princess, she stepped down the ramp, followed by her bareheaded husband Philip (see FOREIGN NEWS). She accepted greetings from Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and a curtsy from Mrs. Diefenbaker. A Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave...
...Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also planned a day-long sightseeing tour of New York City. On a Canadian radio-TV hookup, Elizabeth said: "When you hear or read about the events in Washington and other...
...been James Doe." Said Roosevelt: "I learned how to dine with royalty (you had to finish all of your soup before you earned your meat course) and how to find my way to a tower guest room in Windsor Castle without bumbling into the Queen's or someone else's quarters...
...Mary Stuart that stresses, that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns on whether Mary's royal cousin Elizabeth will sign the death warrant. The scene shifts back...