Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princess Margaret and R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, the suitor she rejected for tradition's sake, left London separately, but at the same time, for a country weekend. Margaret was a house guest of Viscount and Lady Hambleden, youthful (26 and 22, respectively) chaperons, if such be needed. Though Townsend's cronies were darkly evasive about his whereabouts, wilder speculation was that he and the Princess were having one last reunion before Townsend, for whom the course of true love proved impassable, departs on an around-the-world car tour (TIME, June 18) all by himself...
...ends with Rocky knocking out Zale in a bloody six rounds, but neglects to mention his subsequent run-ins with various boxing commissions or his recent triumphs as a high-paid TV star on NBC's Martha Raye Show, where he plays Martha's lowbrowed but highhearted suitor...
...Brussels, where he is attached to the British embassy, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, ex-suitor of Princess Margaret, announced that he has resigned from the R.A.F., effective next fall. His plans for the future: an 18-month, globe-girdling tour in a Land Rover (the British blowup of a jeep), driving wherever there is the semblance of a road, traveling between hemispheres by ship. He will journey alone. Purpose of the trip: "I just want...
...conquest; at the marriage, the very line of her pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance is her fluttering despair when faced with a second suitor, and then her precipitous dash, head thrown back, down Verona's streets...
...Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...