Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briefly interrupting her vacation on the Riviera, where she has been whiling away the sunny summer weeks far from the Shah, Queen Soraya of Iran alighted at Paris' Orly Airport for a shopping binge in the French capital before returning to the Riviera to resume her vacation in queenly solitude...
...Queen Surrounded. In portraying John, Author Rowse takes his cues and many a quote from the latter-day Sir Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even...
Pretty, vigorous Sarah had been the playmate of dull and plain little Princess Anne. When Author Rowse says bluntly that "Anne was in love" with Sarah, he is probably not exaggerating. For Sarah's smile Anne was prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home...
...loving Maggie Fraser comes from the socially acceptable environs of Beacon Hill, with Faneuil blue blood on her mother's side. Maggie herself is bouncy and bossy enough to have been a queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
...atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon Film Festival and Famous Film Festival will serve up 46 J. Arthur Rank films never seen on TV. including Hamlet, A Queen Is Crowned, Genevieve, Hungry Hill...