Word: savoyism
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...years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period favorites as Don't Be That Way and Stompin' at the Savoy. Goodman's clarinet sound, although it missed some of the fiery flow of earlier years, was as limpid and nimbly melodic as ever...
John Mitchell, third man in for Harvard, placed 24. Several racers crashed into trees and broke skis on the fast 15-kilometer course, which curved through the Savoy State forest. The winning time was 54 minutes, 51 seconds...
...bunny scuts and furry ears, bulging breasts and thighs-the ultimate in American vulgarity." Summing up, the Mirror snipped: "Princesses and bunnies don't mix." Well, they really didn't have to mix much at the Dockland Settlements Society's charity ball in London's Savoy Hotel. The ball's organizers thought it would be cute to have some Playboy Club bunnies hopping around selling programs, and that's what the gals were doing when Britain's Princess Margaret, 36, swept in with Lord Snowdon. Meg probably didn't see the cracks...
Divorced. David Merrick, 54, Broadway's hitster and resident Beelzebub; by Jeanne Gibson Merrick, 38, former publicity director of London's Savoy Hotel; on grounds of "incompatibility of characters"; after 19 months of marriage, one child; in Juárez, Mexico. After the divorce, the ex-Mrs. Merrick placed a public notice in the New York Times: "My husband, David Merrick, having left my bed and board, I will no longer be responsible for his debts...
Italy was finally united in 1870 under the House of Savoy. The unity was perhaps inevitable, but without Garibaldi the Risorgimento would have lacked a popular hero. He was a good commander of men; Abraham Lincoln even offered him an army corps with the Union forces. (Garibaldi turned him down; he wanted supreme command and immediate abolition of slavery.) He was, however, too much of an innocent to be a good administrator. He was installed only briefly as "Dictator" of Sicily. Yet if the prophet-in-arms was a nuisance in his own country, he received great honor elsewhere...