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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no desire to enter the private life of the royal family," announced a leading Hague newspaper primly one day last week. "The Queen's living room at least should be out of the sight and hearing of those who have nothing to do in there," echoed another. Thus gingerly did Dutch newspapers take note of what elsewhere was sensational headline news. A long-standing royal secret was at last out in the open...
...daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Ma-rijke). As a result of German measles suffered by her mother during pregnancy, the little princess was born with cataracts on both eyes. Doctors were able to save some of the vision in one eye, but by the time Marijke was, two, the sight of the other was gone. In desperation, Juliana and her husband were willing to clutch at any straw of hope...
...Salmon, a fairy tale written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...
...Marie is breaking her engagement and Hope is walking off, not only with the girl, but with the boy and dog as well. Bob breezes amiably through this pastiche, firing off salvos of one-line jokes, mugging happily, and milking his nervous stomach and faint heart for every sight gag possible. Eva Marie Saint is mostly limited to wearing high-fashion clothes and looking elegant, but, in the drunk scene, she exhibits a comedy talent of her own-especially in a Groucho-like gallop that definitely hits the Marx...
...remember, the Pirates have occupied the National League's second division, and since 1952 they have lain fecklessly in the cellar. At last they are hot. For one giddy moment last week, playing like champions, they even swashbuckled themselves to the top of the league. It was a sight to move any man to comment. "Judas priest" murmured Branch Rickey, the 75-year-old baseball seer who more than any had shaped the miracle of Pittsburgh. "We are no longer a convenience...