Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
Died. Richard Bedford Bennett, Viscount Bennett of Calgary, 76, onetime (1930-35) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; at his home in Surrey, England...
Froth of a Flood. Last week in New Delhi, Queen-Empress Victoria's great-grandson, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, was working hard to get out of India as fast as he could. To Hindu and Moslem politicos responsible for setting up two new dominions in India before mid-August he sent memos reminding them "only 62 more days," "only 55 more days." The British did not rely on Hindu and Moslem leaders' continuing to work together. The British wanted to clear out before India blew up in their faces...
Boston Symphony's Serge Koussevitzky, who acknowledged applause with little conductorial bows; Chief Justice Frederick M. Vinson; Viscount Alexander of Tunis, the Governor General of Canada, in the red robe of Oxford; U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (getting his third degree in three days) ; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Vatican in his cardinal's red; Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower...
...notable absentee: the President's host, Viscount Alexander. Not even for such an occasion as this could the House of Commons allow a king or his viceroy in its hall...