Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like every American girl-be simple," urged Paris Dressmaker Jean Desses last summer, when his favorite customer announced that she was planning a trip to the U.S. and needed some new things to wear. The Queen of Greece, the pert, petite lady to whom he spoke, seized on the good advice. She had only one royal admonition to offer. "I have a tiny waist,"* she said, "and I want to show...
Thus agreed in principle, Dressmaker Desses and his customer, Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes, got together last week in Paris for the final fittings of the wardrobe which the Greek Queen is taking aboard the liner United States for her first visit to the U.S. next week. It was. as Desses had promised, simple. After long consultation with the head men in the Greek treasury (who had only $5,700 to spend), the dressmaker had cut his original specifications from 22 to 15 new garments, but he obligingly helped make over some of the Queen's old things...
...pessimism was misplaced. Ever since the days of another Balkan Queen, Marie of Rumania, storming the sentimental citadel of U.S. republicanism has become a required skill for European monarchs. Americans, denying themselves the luxury of a monarch of their own, usually capitulate to visiting crowned heads without even a faint show of resistance. In addition, 36-year-old Frederika of Greece and her handsome husband, King Paul, have already captured an impressive array of U.S. hostages in their homeland...
...Winter Gardens at Margate, where 4,000 Tory bigwigs sat in party convention beneath a panoply of Union Jacks. They sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and cheered until the rafters rang when he suddenly appeared before them, a beaming, black-jacketed old gentleman, venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar...
...Dodge in 1928. Reason for the move: the two independents think that it would help them cut costs and strengthen their sales organizations to meet intense competition expected from autos' Big Three in 1954-55. One possible bar to the merger: among Hudson's biggest stockholders is Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, who with other Dutch shareholders was able to block a purchase eight years ago by Detroit's Fisher Bros...