Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion, a postwar record number of peers (377 out of the 700-odd eligible members) jammed the benches, spilling over onto the steps of the Queen's vacant throne and standing at the other end of the chamber. Late afternoon sunlight streamed through the tall west windows, flecking the gilded hall with the reds, blues, purples and whites of ancient aristocrats memorialized in stained glass above the heads of their descendants. The lords milled about, unaccustomed to the crush. The confusion became so great that at one point Lord Salisbury, 74, struggling to his feet, got tangled...
...show was called the National College Queen Pageant, which is not to be confused with NBC's Junior Miss Pageant or CBS's Miss Teen-age America Pageant or ABC's Miss Teen International Pageant. This season, with ten girlie galas scheduled by the networks and dozens more by local stations, the College Queen Pageant might possibly be remembered for two slight distinctions. First, the new queen, Valerie Dickerson, 21, from San Jose State College in California, was the only Negro among the 50 contestants. Second, the show is sponsored by the Best Foods Division of Corn...
Royal Saleslady. Like all network pageant winners, College Queen Dickerson will spend the next year posing for magazine ads and giving testimonials on behalf of the sponsor. In addition to such prizes as a new convertible, a trip to Europe and ten shares of Corn Products stock (worth $390 as of last week), she will also earn $100 for each day that she performs as a royal saleslady. The current Miss America, Kansas' Debra Dene Barnes, will pick up $100,000 this year for presiding at the opening of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant or perching on the fender...
...real beauty of the beauties on parade is that everyone is a winner. The sponsors get a curvy queen who boosts the sales curve. The networks get the talent for free, and thus can produce the spectaculars for about half the cost of a variety show. And the pageant promoters get added revenue from selling the rights to run preliminary contests at local and regional levels. If a city balks at the price, there are always other takers waiting in line. Eight years ago, the Miss Universe Pageant moved to Miami when Long Beach, Calif., refused...
...KING, QUEEN, KNAVE by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty twists in this first English-language edition of a novel written in 1928, when the Russian-born prose master was a 28-year-old emigre living in Berlin...