Word: rainiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monaco's most pressing internal problem is, of course, whether Princess Grace is pregnant. In Paris Prince Rainier III kept his own counsel. But a correspondent for CIP, international Catholic news agency, reported that the Prince's chaplain, Delaware's garrulous Father Francis Tucker, had told all: "I see no reason to deny information which will soon be made official...
...their first official public appearance since their April wedding, Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply...
Peppery old (71) Socialist Norman Thomas sounded off in Houston. On free enterprise: "All the recent business mergers and consolidations make absurd the old-line talk of free enterprise. The only free enterprise in America today is small boys who shoot marbles for keeps." On the Kelly-Rainier merger "If Grace had married the mayor of Las Vegas, she wouldn't have had to produce a son to keep the place going...
...Rainier and his bride are extremely fortunate that anyone came as representatives of Great Britain and the U.S., and Queen Elizabeth's gift should be accepted gracefully...
TIME implies that our Queen snubbed Rainier and his bride. But what could the Queen do? She had to frown on her sister's proposed morganatic marriage a short time...