Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...
Catching Hollywood's rumorists by surprise, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 33, got spruced up (the unwashed jeans lately have stood empty while their owner sported a blue suit, necktie and Hom-burg), drove to Eagle Rock, near Pasadena, and got married. Then with his bride, demure, olive-skinned, sari-swathed Starlet Anna Kashfi, 23, almost as unknown as any of the carhops and hat-nappers he has dated while snubbing the screen's more famous ladies, "Hollywood's most eligible bachelor" vanished in a cloud of idle speculation. Was there a Welshman in the woodpile? Was Dar-jeeling...
...another time, in another place, the jittery man in the grey flannel, red-trimmed suit might have been carted off to the booby hatch. He jerked, jiggled, tugged at his cap. He scratched and spat. In front of 61,207 at Yankee Stadium, and 40 million more on TV, he shuddered through two hours of spasms. But no one who watched the Yankees and the Braves in the last game of the World Series last week worried about the sanity of Selva Lewis Burdette Jr., 30. Throwing a sneaky assortment of curves, sinkers and screwballs, he made last year...
...only drawback to Editor Keyser's big joke was that the subjects of his phony stories failed to see it. Democrat Mike Birmingham promptly sued Republican Keyser-a longtime critic of his administration-for $1,000,000 damages. A second suit (for $500,000) was filed by Chairman of the County Property Review Board Christian H. Kahl, whom Keyser had playfully reported to be "hiding out in the sand dunes near Ocean City." County State's Attorney Frank H. Newell has summoned a grand jury to consider criminal proceedings against the editor. Last week, as other victims...
...woman told the Legal Aid counsel that she had been married for four years and was living in a housing project in Lynn. Six months before, her husband had left her and their young son; now she wanted assistance in filing suit for divorce...