Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logistics were so complex that press cards for the New York visit had to be issued in red, blue and green for different functions, the arrangements for coverage ran surprisingly smoothly. Reporters twitted each other about drawing for places in a pool of "pantry peepers" who peeked at the royal dinner in Ottawa's Government House. But for the first time in Canada a reigning British monarch held a reception for the press, and when Elizabeth and Philip held another in Washington, British newsmen skulking unhappily in the corners wondered whether it could ever happen in London...
...sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued incandescence." Prince Philip himself summed up the problem sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when they sit down to write it, find they have nothing .to write about." But with the vigor that Elizabeth admired, they wrote it just the same, and wrote it, and wrote it again...
...Gerald Kelly, 78, painter and past president of Britain's Royal Academy, is a salty soul who once sat before the microphones of the BBC and described a Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large...
When The Sphinx was finished, Sir Gerald showed it to Sir William Llewellyn, then Royal Academy president, heard him say, "By Jove, my dear chap, it's wonderful. You really must send it in." Comments Sir Gerald wryly: "Well, I sent it in, but it jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety...
Twenty-seven years later the still quite proper Royal Academy had no objection at all to The Sphinx. What did Sir Gerald think of her now? Said he: "Oh, what a whopping big picture. It's too large. Terribly difficult...