Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced: "I'm interested in toys for a six-year-old boy and a four-year girl-and I'd like them to be very American." For half an hour she examined and tested a procession of toys before settling for a steam shovel ($5), a plastic tea set ($3), a baking set ($5), a chocolate-drink mixer ($5) and a collection of plastic bricks ($5). Except for her clipped accent and a certain bedlamic stir that trailed after her, the lady might have been any ordinary grandmother on a shopping spree in New York. She was Britain...
...Tea & Western Sandwiches. The "Queen Mum," as New York's British colony calls her, arrived in the U.S. last week smiling and marveling at the sights of New York harbor. At week's end, after a schedule of shopping, sightseeing and partying that would have staggered women half her age, she was still going strong. Everywhere she appeared, she managed to break through the stiff cordon of protocol with her smile, her poise, or her dazzling jewels. On every hand the comment was the same: "Isn't she lovely...
...afternoon she covered 44 galleries, six centuries of paintings and a formal tea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pausing to comment on a favorite Renoir or Rembrandt, and startling the sketching classes. That evening she went to see The Pajama Game. The show, she explained, was her own choice; for weeks she had listened to Princess Margaret's records of Hey There and Hernando's Hideaway, until the tunes "buzzed" in her ears. During the intermission she sipped champagne backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from...
...Higher Tea & Scrabble. On a trip to the top of the Empire State Building, Her Majesty was enchanted with the view, refused to come down until she had seen the full glory of a Manhattan sunset and consumed three cups of tea. When she emerged, in the five-o'clock rush hour, a swirling, near-hysterical crowd almost swept her off her feet, and only a flying wedge of policemen got her safely into her black Rolls-Royce...
Saturday's entertainment includes morning soccer games and jayvee football competition, as well as the main feature in the stadium at 1:30. In the evening the Princetonians are presenting the "Tiger Tea Party" at Dillon Gym from 9:00 to 1:00. Dancing will be to Billy Butterfield and his 12-piece orchestra, with scences from the Triangle show at intermission--all for $2.50 a couple...