Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Kogan, 33, started tangling with technical difficulties as a seven-year-old prodigy in Dnepropetrovsk, was soon tagged as a good cultural investment, entered the Moscow Conservatory to study under Abram Yampolsky. In 1951 he burst spectacularly on the international musical scene by winning Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against the best young talent of the West. Now married to Elizabeth Gilels, younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week...
Westminster Abbey, was cited by the Vatican (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great), once headed the Yale University Catholic center and chapel fund-raising committee. In 1947 President Truman awarded him the President's Certificate of Merit, and in 1952 Queen Elizabeth II made him honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire...
Exhibiting their persistent disregard of perennial protests by Britain's League Against Cruel Sports, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother Elizabeth journeyed to Westacre, by their presence lent royal sanction to a meet of the West Norfolk Foxhounds. With them, and showing an avid interest in the hill-and-daling of the baying pack, were Princess Anne, in corduroy slacks and polo coat, and Prince Charles...
STRANGE EVIL, by Jane Gaskell (256 pp.; Dutton; $3.50), is a saner but less fascinating novel. It reads a little as if Alice had blundered into the court of Pierre Louÿs instead of the Red Queen. The book abounds in bare-breasted courtesans and tall, flashing-eyed men, many of them wicked. Most of the action, described in lavender prose, takes place in fairyland, which is reached by springing lightly off Notre Dame de Paris. The heroine, for reasons probably most obvious to a 14-year-old girl bent on writing a naughty novel, is a nude model...
...Year honors list, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II tapped some 2,200 subjects of the British Commonwealth for tribute. Elevated to the baronage, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, former governor of strife-torn Cyprus. As Commander Order of the British Empire, London-born (as Alice Marks) Prima Ballerina Alicia Markova, 47, long renowned for her Giselle; to the knighthood, Author-Biologist Julian Huxley, onetime director-general of UNESCO. The world featherweight boxing champion, Nigeria's Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, 25, learned that he had flailed his way to another laurel-Member of the Order of the British Empire...