Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first maharani is dead. Maharani No. 2 is living in retirement, back in Jaipur. The currently visible maharani is the sister of the fun-loving maharaja of Cooch-Behar, and a sportswoman in her own right: by her own reckoning, she has bagged some 25 tigers...
...Suiting the action to the thought, yeasty, 72-year-old Elsa went to work, talked Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos into the loan of the new liner Achilleus, and assembled a likely guest list. The Queen of the Hellenes, who herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa. "because there's no point in taking coals to Newcastle, and we wanted people who would spend money, which meant no royalty, since royalty, alas, has no money...
Isolated Towns. The floods were mothered by another hurricane, Diane, which swept toward the U.S. from the mid-Atlantic. But Diane turned out to be a weak sister, and soon after hitting the Carolina coast she became a mere squalling rainstorm. When the fading Diane hit the hot and humid Northeast, she released a torrent of rain-the moisture that Diane had sucked out of the ocean when she was still a whirling hurricane. For 24 hours the rains fell from burst clouds, filling rivers and streams, inundating large areas of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York...
...further grounds for objecting to the marriage, since she would then be acting as a private person. They have recommended that if Margaret plans to go through with it, the Queen should send a message to Parliament-after Parliament meets again in October-apprising Lords and Commons of her sister's intention of retiring to private life...
...convicted of murdering another soldier with the help of his halfbrother, two British weeklies got articles from 1) the murderer (I THOUGHT I HAD GOT AWAY WITH IT), 2) the half-brother (WHY I GAVE MY BROTHER'S MURDER SECRET AWAY), 3) the murdered man's sister (WHY I KNEW MY BROTHER DID NOT KILL HIMSELF), and 4) the soldier's wife (I AM TO BLAME...