Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy week of social whirling for Britain's royal family. One evening Princess Margaret took 24 friends nightclubbing (see Music). On another evening King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters went to the movies: a special performance of That Forsyte Woman at the Odeon, about which 5,000 celebrity hunters swirled and gawked. On an evening at home (Buckingham Palace), the King and Queen gave a little party (250 guests) for Princess Elizabeth before she flew to Malta to spend her second wedding anniversary with Prince Philip, who is on duty with the fleet. The band...
...Viscount Montgomery thought he knew how to find out if his World War II commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, will run for the U.S. presidency in 1952. Arriving in Manhattan for conferences, Monty said: "I shall ask Ike if he is going to run when I see him next week...
Only three weeks ago, New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer seemed to be running for re-election on a platform of love, and he was getting gladsome publicity from the press. Last week, the election won, Bill O'Dwyer ruefully learned the lesson of the sorcerer's apprentice: it is hard to stop a flood...
Yearning for a little post-election privacy 59-year-old Bill O'Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that...
...office at City Hall alone and met another horde of newsmen. One of them tossed a copy of the New York World-Telegram on his desk and pointed to a story of a baker who said he was delivering a wedding cake to the mayor this week. Any comment? Snapped the mayor: "Take that paper off my desk." The "merciless intrusion" of the press, he moaned, "could do a lot toward breaking up my friendship with Miss Simpson...