Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want no kings ruling over them. The last Emperor of France was tossed off the throne 86 years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers were busily engaged...
...Hiroshima last year is still going the rounds. He has staged concerts by the First Marine Air Wing Drum and Bugle Corps, started a series of seminars on American culture, a Japanese-American folk-dance program. Last Christmas he dressed up as Santa Claus, visited the orphanages in town to distribute gifts...
...recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week, in a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall, Pianist Marvin put a few samples of his find on display...
...Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease...
...addition, New Girl in Town, a musical version of O'Neill's 1921 Anna Christie, will open on Hroadway...