Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's leading authorities on church history, Professor La Piana is a native of Palermo, Sicily, where he studied at the Lyceum of Monreale and the Royal University. There he also became professor of both Latin and History, before coming to the United States...
...controversy raised a question: is Lady Beecham that good a pianist or is Sir Thomas just that good a husband? At ten, Betty Humby was the youngest pupil ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14 she had 30 pupils of her own and at 16 she was a piano professor under Myra Hess. As a concert soloist, however, critics rate her as competent, not great...
...class is the pianist Sir Thomas approached at week's end. He asked Pianist Artur Schnabel, perhaps the top living interpreter of Beethoven and Mozart, to play with the Royal Philharmonic next month. Schnabel, who was once Lady Beecham's teacher, declined. He was, he said, leaving London the next day. But, he added slyly, "if it were possible, I would have liked to have taken a chance on a Mozart concerto...
Died. Henry George Charles Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 64, sporting, moose-tall sixth Earl of Harewood, wealthy landowner husband of George VI's only sister, Mary, Britain's Princess Royal; of a heart ailment and asthma; in Leeds, England...
...never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare's day to question their existence. The great Elizabethan savant, Dr. Dee, was as much on the alert for phony witchery as the Roman Catholic Church is for phony miracles, but Dr. Dee used "magic" (by royal request) to divine the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and spent most of his life peering into a crystal ball and trying to induce the archangels to join him in intellectual disputations...