Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine. Click click click click click click click. Into that big brass bed of a back seat she came ... Cleopatra ... ravaged husbands ... headlines ... southern charm ... headlines ... diamonds ... bigger diamonds ... Farrah Fawcett-drip Majors and "One Million B.C." bosoms paled in comparison. She was The Queen Bee, the dream of very press photographer. And now here I was rising above the multitude of lenses to claim my prize. Almost instantaneously I straddled the fenders and lay prostrate on the firm hood of that convertible '58 Lincoln Continental. The picture was mine...
...Crimson field-event entrants were a little healthier and, after their performance, a little happier than the runners. Chris Queen snared the shot-put crown with a 52 ft. 8 3/4 in. toss, while Geoff Stiles shuttled through space in the pole vault for his first victory against Princeton...
Last week Britain's literate and near-literate were howling to give the present P.L., Sir John Betjeman, the sack. The reason was the verse he had written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...
...bestselling poets. His light verse frequently reflects the loss of 19th century pastoral England. Last week he defended his 24-line Jubilee Hymn on grounds that it was meant to be sung, not recited. Indeed, it had been set to melody by Malcolm Williamson, Master of the Queen's Music, and drew loud applause when performed by the Trinity Boys' Choir at London's Royal Albert Hall...
...Died. Queen Alia of Jordan, 28, third wife of King Hussein; in a helicopter crash while returning from a hospital inspection tour in southern Jordan with Health Minister Mohammed al Beshir, who was also killed. The first of Hussein's wives to be crowned queen, Alia was active in charitable work and was an advocate of women's rights. She liked fast cars, water-skiing and blue jeans-a style she picked up while studying political science at Hunter College in New York City, where her father was a Jordanian delegate...