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...royal family had done everything they could. The slight, handsome suitor had been sent off to another country. The pretty Princess had been admonished on the responsibilities of her position and her duty to the throne. The Archbishop of Canterbury had warned her that the church could not marry her to a divorced man; the Prime Minister had exhorted her to remember the sad story of her Uncle Edward. As a last resort, they had packed her off for a tour of the sunny Caribbean, urging her to have fun and think it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Dolly Princess | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...early decades of the century, a Colombian suitor, somberly dressed in black, wooed and won his señorita in classical style, even though it sometimes took years of hot-eyed glances through barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Cocacolos | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Tactical Air Command should be a suitor, too, for the Voodoo could range far to help troops isolated from air bases and badly in need of rocket-bomb or atomic-bomb air support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Versatile Voodoo | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Suitor. In Los Angeles, suing for divorce, Mrs. Margaret McCarthy, 44, testified that her fourth husband Michael had falsely claimed that he owned a house, 180 acres of land, that he stood to win a $5,000,000 lawsuit over oil rights, that he was 56 when he was really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...much Laughton leaves the audience feeling that there has been too little Brenda de Banzie and John Mills, who are excellent as the spinster and her workingman suitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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