Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scads of the Kellys' neighboring Mainliners, was a benefit performance for Mrs. Kelly's charity, Philadelphia's Woman's Medical College. Soon, while others there tittered nervously, Jack and Margaret Kelly learned the worst: Happy Hunting not only satirized the wedding of Grace and Prince Rainier, but also used everybody's real names and even called Monaco Monaco. One ditty in the show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain...
Into the White House, amidst a week roiling with campaign screamings and baseball meemies, strolled serene highness in the persons of young-jowled Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco. All tokens pointed to continued good relations between the U.S. and the vestpocket principality, as President Eisenhower and the royal couple chatted easily of places they've all visited and people they've known-and fishing. Rummaging in his desk drawer for a gift for Rainier, Ike pulled out a velvet-swathed box, then suddenly changed his mind and instead handed the Prince a handsome leathercovered box with...
...Even the presence of Their Serene Highnesses Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco couldn't brighten the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City after rain softened the course and the favored Swaps was scratched with an injured forefoot. However, C. V. Whitney's Career Boy ran the race of his life to catch Find and Mr. Gus in the stretch...
Back home, regardless of party, many Washingtonians feel the same way. Magnuson has friends and supporters not only in nominally Democratic circles, e.g., in the labor movement, but in nominally Republican circles as well. To a reception recently at Seattle's exclusive Rainier Club came 125 Seattle businessmen to thank him for work well done and wish him well in the future...
Carlin crossed the Bay of Bengal alone, met Hanley in Akyab, Burma. Together, the new shipmates crossed Burma and headed toward Thailand. Neglected British military roads were so bad that Carlin says, "I wouldn't drive that way again for Gracie Kelly and ?1,000, with Rudolph the Rainier's job thrown...