Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls for his son, Rama VI, and a gold cigarette case which was presented to England's Queen Mary by the Maharaja of Bikanir. But his most ambitious work was the series of 50-odd surprise Easter eggs which he executed over three decades for Alexander III and Nicholas...
Died. Sir Maurice Alan Cassidy, 69, heart specialist and physician to three British kings (George V, Edward VIII, George VI); of complications following an auto accident last April; in London...
Cheers for Honneybun. Last week they got both. As wedding bells rang out for royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James...
...season's first grouse went on sale. On hand were 103 brace (i.e., 206 birds), at $10.50 a brace, or about $3.50 a pound. That was the standard price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment, said gastronomes, would go best with grouse...
Convalescing after a minor operation, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla got the bulletins at his seaside home in Viña del Mar. An old hand at tackling crises, he ordered his plane made ready for the short flight to the capital, returned to La Moneda on the second day of the rioting...