Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announcement of the royal engagement was first made public in the princely palace of Monaco. Shortly afterward, Jack Kelly confirmed the news to a small group of friends at a luncheon at the Philadelphia Country Club, and afterward to a thundering herd of reporters and photographers at the graceful mansion that Jack built himself. "Grace met him when she was on the French Riviera," confided the father of the bride. "She went there to make a picture called To Catch a Thief-and look what she came back with." Under the breathless guidance of an M-G-M pressagent, Grace...
Comedian & Playwright. With both an actress and an American among her recent predecessors, Princess-elect Kelly should have no difficulties with her royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George (Craig...
...names for himself-in business, sports and politics. As a young boy, he went to work carrying hods for his brother, a brick contractor. In his spare time he practiced rowing on the Schuylkill, became proficient enough to try for the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta in 1920. He was turned down, though; as a former bricklayer, he was not considered a gentleman. Kelly beat the Diamond Sculls winner just the same, at the Olympics two months later, and sent his stained sculling cap to King George V as a booby prize...
After the announcements, Grace and Rainier attended a gala ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where they sat uncomfortably in a "royal" box and nibbled crystallized violets while the press howled at the door. Grace wore a Dior gown and low heels so that she would not be taller than the 5 ft. 6 in. Prince. Later, at the Harwyn Club, Grace nibbled at Rainier's ear, and danced with him until 4 a.m. This week she was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, leaving her fiancé to wander around...
Cambodia's young Premier Norodom Sihanouk, who used to be his country's King, has a strange notion of democracy. It is the people, not Parliament. Thus he calls his people to congresses (BIG NATIONAL POPULAR MEETING AT THE ROYAL...