Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taken up technically, the matter proved solvable. The Anglo-French salvage fleet would keep working in the Port Said harbor after the troops left. The ships would be turned over to the U.N., operate under the U.N. flag. Royal Navy officers and men would don civilian clothes "down to cuff links," and all wear U.N. arm bands. The ships would dismantle all guns (a good thing, gruffed Lord Hailsham, "there's nobody there I'd particularly want to salute...
Background: Born in Brussels on Jan. 25, 1899, Spaak, like his native land, is an amalgam of two widely divergent strains. His Flemish father was one of Belgium's best-known artists, a poet, playwright and director of the Brussels Royal Opera. His mother, a Walloon, was Belgium's first woman Senator, the daughter of one of the nation's great 19th century liberal leaders and the sister of a former Prime Minister...
...chiffon and diamonds, H.R.H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, a handsome woman at 50, posed in Kensington Palace for a birthday portrait by Britain's most chic photographer, willowy Cecil Beaton. For the occasion, she bedecked herself with a spectacular array of decorations, including the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
Died. Princess Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christiana Helena, 84, last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria, oldest member of Britain's royal family and longtime grande dame of London society, whose autobiography. My Memories of Six Reigns, was published last month; of bronchitis; in London...
Anastasia (20th Century-Fox) is a name, derived from the Greek, that means "of the resurrection." It is also the curiously appropriate name of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, last of the Czars of Russia. Many romantics fondly believe that Anastasia survived the slaughter of the royal family in a Siberian cellar in 1918, escaped with two members of the firing squad, and is living today, an indigent widow, near Stuttgart, West Germany. On Broadway, Anastasia was a financially successful attempt, made in 1954, to resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones...