Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's Jean-Jacques Lebel strolls through the crowd, inviting each spectator to close one eye. He holds up a pornographic picture to the other eye, strokes the closed eye with a feather, then invites the spectator to change eyes, holds up a postcard of Queen Elizabeth, and strokes the closed eye with a carrot. "Beautiful, Jean-Jacques," murmur the spectators...
...Count Henri Jean Marie André de Laborde de Monpezat, 32, a French diplomat whom she met in London three years ago. Briefly leaving his post as third secretary of the French embassy in London to meet his future in-laws, the count called on King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen, practiced his Danish, and arranged his conversion from Catholicism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church...
Died. Cecile Sorel, 92, French actress, who reigned as queen of the Comédie Francaise for 32 years (1901-33), made an abrupt switch at 60 to the music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in the July 28 auction catalogue. Then it was hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered one day last July. As he surveyed the two plump goddesses surrounding Paris and Venus, Millar now recalls, "I smelled a Rubens...
Living like a king-or queen-is expensive. Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, for example, has long been about to go broke on her $690,500 "civil list" salary. After all, out of that amount she has to pay the wages of some 280 workers of her palace household, ranging from chamberlain to chambermaid. Sympathetic Dutch legislators are expected to double Juliana's base pay, making her Europe's highest-paid monarch. The list...