Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January of this year Sary was packed off into gilded exile as Cambodia's Ambassador to Britain. Sary's entourage: his formidable No. 1 wife, Em, a plump suffragette, and their five children, ranging in age from 8 to 18; Tep Kanary, the young beauty queen, Sam's No. 2 wife and No. 1 mistress; the other beauty, Iv Eng Seng, was either No. 3 wife or No. 2 mistress. To get around British sensibilities, Iv Eng Seng was listed as a governess. Whose business was it that she was also pregnant? Sam Sary called on Queen...
Previewing a style that might catch on for such sports as spelunking or Gaelic football for girls, Queen Elizabeth II donned black boots, bright white helmet and floppy boiler suit for a visit to the Rothes Colliery in Fife. As Britain's first pit-hopping Queen, Her Majesty drew gushes for the garb from the watchful press, even earned a wee handclap from fussy Royal Couturier Norman Hartnell: "Being English, of course she looks marvelous in all sports clothes...
...force got a free trip (with their wives), plus $25 for each point over the quota. Rich's department store in Atlanta offers monthly bonuses to all its salespeople for topping their set quotas, once or twice a year holds a King-and-Queen contest in which the leading male and female salespeople are crowned with great hoopla by Rich's President Richard H. Rich...
President Edouard Cournand holds that "if you give away too much too often, it loses its value." The Evans Case Co. recently scratched its giveaways of handbags, which had hit $25,000 a year on such matinee tearjerkers as Queen For a Day and The Big Payoff, because "we never traced a single sale to the TV giveaways." General Electric also is cool to giveaways. Reasons G.E.: "Viewers may be encouraged to try to win a product rather than...
Died. Donald W. Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...