Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Typewriter Co., world's biggest producer of typewriters, no name is more regal than Ryan. The company was founded 47 years ago by Thomas Fortune Ryan, a tycoon who controlled a billion-dollar empire of banks, railroads, insurance, mines, utilities, tobacco, etc. His grandson Allan A. Jr. is now chairman of the board. Last week Allan's younger brother, Fortune Peter Ryan, who inherited $3,300,000 from his grandfather,* stepped into the Royal presidency...
Last week, on a mountain slope near Vancouver, in buff-naked conclave assembled, 95 nudists held a contest to choose their Royal Family. As Queen they selected Housewife Lyla Olson, 23; as King, Dan ("Tiny") McDonald, a jolly, 210-lb. carpenter. Along with a prince and princess, the regal pair then had their picture taken, discreetly screened by silver trophies and bouquets. Explained one member: "We've nothing to hide...
Song of the River. His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire. He was buried last week as he liked to live, in a blaze of regal pomp. The governor was there, the mayor, notables of publishing, screen, stage and public affairs. A movie-studio publicist shepherded the press. Flashbulbs blinked, newsreel cameras whirred. Somewhere in the crowd of 1,500, a woman fainted...
Izaak Walton called salmon "the king of fresh-water fish." In New Brunswick's famed Restigouche River, the Atlantic salmon are not only king-size (up to 48 Ibs.), but the sport of hooking them takes a regal bankroll. Fishing leases cost up to $25,000 a year for the exclusive Restigouche clubs, where rosters are studded with names like Du Pont, Vanderbilt and Whitney. Even in the limited government waters, the fee is $40 a rod per day, and only 70 permits are issued each year...
...trained seals are back at last. The freaks, as usual, are the ugliest persons ever assembled in one basement, especially the Cuban Troubadors, last year's Hula Girls. Afficianados will note with distaste that the modern circus still has too much of the ballet, the burlesque, and the "Regal Cavalcade with Queen Marie Antoinette and her Gay Court of The Royal Horse Show in the Forest of Fontaineblean." But even so nauseous a spectacle as Sixty Alluring Aloha Girls Aloft can be reclaimed by watching Pinito Del Oro in the center, standing no-hands on a swinging trapeze...