Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily home in Athens after two months of successful junketeering in the U.S.. where she handled everything from White House luncheons and atomic-science briefings to roadside snacks, e.g., a prickly-pear cactus malted at the Grand Canyon, lively Queen Frederika of Greece graciously turned the other cheek for a warming buss from King Paul, who stayed put to mind the palace...
Fanciers of Johann Sebastian Bach are a disputatious lot given to occult probings into the spirit of the Master. Some like their Bach feathery and ice-edged; some like him broad and deliberate. The undisputed queen of the "broad" Bach school is Chicago-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, who for the past five years has been building an impressive reputation in Europe's concert halls (TIME, July 29, 1957). Last week the New York Philharmonic provided J.S.B.'s Manhattan fans with a rare treat: an all-Bach program at which Pianist Tureck appeared as the first female conductor...
...Queen's Words. When the police arrived to evict the Batonga, some diehard villagers would not move. Said a government official: "I told them that the words I was saying were the Queen's words and asked them if they would refuse the Queen's words. They said they did refuse the Queen's words." And with that unexpected defiance, the long docile Batonga erupted in a brief spasm of fury. Some 500 young tribesmen, armed with spears and pointed sticks, charged the police, were promptly scattered by a volley of gunfire which killed eight...
...Apollo. The first of five planned supertankers, the Universe surpasses the largest previous bulk carriers, Ludwig's 85,000-ton tankers. With a length of 950 ft. and a beam of 135 ft., Universe Apollo is the widest merchant ship afloat, and the third longest (ranking after the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary...
...Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham, 34, monarchist editor of the National and English Review, whose 1957 analysis of "The Monarchy Today" thoughtfully explored the Crown's position in a world where "republics are the rule," but earned him inglorious publicity for his choice of phrases about the Queen's speaking style ("a pain in the neck") and manner ("that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team"); and Marian Campbell, 27, editor of a youth magazine published by Altrincham; in Tormarton, England...