Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shocking Affair. Henry, the first Tudor, who himself usurped the throne by force of arms at the Battle of Bosworth, had every reason to blacken the memory of Richard in order to make his own crown more secure. It was at Henry's direction, says the Richardists, that Morton...
More cooked up a sycophant's brew of history for the Tudor king...
...Sword and the Rose (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is an old-fashioned piece of historical romance done with stylized charm and sly wit. Based on Charles Major's popular 1898 novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower, it tells the love story of Princess Mary Tudor (1496-1533) and Captain of the Guard Charles Brandon. Before the two lovers were married in 1515, Mary had to overcome the objections of her brother, King Henry VIII, submit to a short-lived political marriage with aging, ailing King Louis XII of France, and, according to the movie, contend with the machinations...
Died. William Tudor Gardiner, 61, two-term Republican governor of Maine (1929-33), wealthy corporation executive (Northwest Airlines, the Pacific Coast Co., etc.), soldier in both World Wars; in the crash of his private plane; near Allentown, Pa. Descendant of an old Maine family, he was a star athlete at Groton and Harvard. In 1928 Lawyer Gardiner sailed a yawl up & down the Maine coast, campaigning for the governorship, won election by 80,000 votes. In World War II, as an Army colonel, he accompanied General Maxwell D. Taylor on a daring mission to German-occupied Rome (1943) to secure...
...living with Mrs. Lehman in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel and a Manhattan apartment, has had little time to spend on the 75-acre, Purchase, N.Y. estate which had been his home since 1921. Last week realtors announced that the Lehmans had sold the estate, their 19-room Tudor mansion and all the fixings (asking price: $150,000) to a chain-store owner. Some of the fixings : a sun room overlooking Long Island Sound, ten-car garage, six-room gatehouse, terraced gardens, tennis court, oval swimming pool, five horse stalls (without horses) and a root cellar...