Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, took a 783-mile hop from Capetown to Johannesburg to crown the "Wool Queen," next day crowned Miss South Africa, in the presence of Miss Britain, Miss France and Miss America (Barbara Jo Walker). Coming up shortly: national elections...
...prominent D.P.s got a royal welcome to Manhattan: Rumania's ex-King Michael and his mother Queen Helen. They weathered a whopping (more than 150 newsfolk) press conference...
...more than 400 years, the 60,000 Greeks of the Dodecanese* had something to cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor, and King Paul and Queen Frederika landed to take formal possession of the islands. In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians. This week, by the terms...
...tapestry chair seats, stitched up by Queen Mary and donated to a British dollar-raising drive called Women's Home Industries Ltd., brought $10,000 at auction in Manhattan...
Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...