Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the 32 Saudi royal visitors (all male), their aides, and seven tons of their luggage at last arrived in a motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept...
...Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped: "I won't say anything about the royal family...
Lacking a royal family to twitter about, Washington society made do last week by hoking up a heart flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...
Supply & Demand. Economists had a ready explanation for the demand for the Canadian dollar: heavy foreign investments in Canadian securities. But Canada's tight-money policies also figured in the climb. Last week the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal increased their prime rate-the interest rate on high-grade business loans-to 5¾% (v. 4½% in New York). The rise will drive more Canadian borrowers to the New York money markets for funds, and with their borrowed U.S. dollars, they will help bid up the price of Canadian dollars...
Died. Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat...