Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment Sir Winston Churchill was there in all his glory-venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar as Big Ben. Next moment, or so it seemed, the dauntless old figure had vanished, and Britain had the feeling that John Bull himself was gone. At 4:25 p.m., in the quiet of an April afternoon, 80-year-old Sir Winston Spencer Churchill put on his black frock coat and drove off to see the Queen...
Eden's talk with the Queen lasted half an hour. At the end she clenched her fists and held them out before him, the right on top of the left, to symbolize the holding of the Sovereign's sword. Sir Anthony knelt and kissed them, thereby accepting the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...
...prewar Prime Minister whose errors Churchill redeemed but never condemned. There, still patient and distinguished with years and honors in his own right, was the Churchillian heir apparent, Sir Anthony Eden, and his 34-year-old wife, Churchill's niece Clarissa. There, along with the beautiful young Queen to whom he had given counsel almost from infancy, were dukes, marquesses, viscounts, friends high and low, each as attentive and respectful as Elizabeth herself...
...Russians were not aboard the Queen Elizabeth when she sailed from England because they did not have visas. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow had denied them visas when they refused to be finger-printed, claiming that it was undignified and discrimination because of their nationality...
Divorced. Sam Spiegel, 51. Hollywood producer (African Queen, On the Waterfront); by Lynne Baggett, 28, sometime Hollywood bit actress: the day after his Waterfront won eight Oscars (see CINEMA), and two months after her release from a 50-day prison term in the hit-and-run death of a nine-year-old boy; after nearly four years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...