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Consummate Actress. Their own dear Queen, with forbidding beneficence, hovered over it all, notably regal, notably bourgeois, and - as Author Petrie remarks - a consummate actress. The power of royalty was in one sense so limited that, as Bagehot declared in the 1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...
...special message celebrating the 50th birthday of Rome's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Pope.'John XXIII noted that "it is a duty to make sure that the Latin language maintains its regal sceptre and its noble dominion in all solemn liturgy." The Pope encouraged the use of good popular hymns in the vernacular at non-solemn liturgical functions. But Latin, he added, "is permanently connected with the sacred melodies of the Church of Rome, and is a clear and splendid symbol of unity . . . It must continue to maintain its sovereign position to which it has every right...
...Erickson sale also showed that great art can go down as well as up. A Raeburn that the Ericksons bought for $100,000 in 1927 went for $60,000; a regal Gainsborough that cost $300,000 in 1928 went for a dismal $35,000. A Holbein portrait also went for $35,000, which was $95,000 less than the Ericksons paid. The painting that took the worst tumble was a Van Dyck: it cost the Ericksons $200,000 plus two paintings, went for $27,000 last week...
From the West comes President Kennedy, with his regal wife, and splendid children; then the Queen of England, God bless her, with Prince Philip; President de Gaulle, alone; Adenauer and Willy Brandt; and finally various and sundry NATO allies, professors and military...
...With a regal flourish, the Ladies' Home Journal, " 77-year-old dowager queen of the women's magazine held, last week swept a brand-new team of advertising and business experts into top command. Presumably in the same nonveaii spirit, the Journal's editors trotted out as their No. 1 feature for the October issue: an "exclusive" and interminable study of Monaco's Princess Grace. Was the Journal's editorial lure a mite shopworn? Princess Grace has already been X-rayed to exhaustion by LIFE (1956). Collier's (1957). Look...