Word: whose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...Petersberg drove Adenauer & Co. They told the three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
Some months ago the priest in Ixcateopan sent the National Museum a frayed and yellowed manuscript that had been brought to him by an Indian farmer whose family had preserved it through the centuries. It was signed by one of Cortes' companions, Padre Francisco Toribio de Benavente, whom the Indians had called Motolinia (the Poor Man), because of his strict asceticism...
...Manhattan's Town Hall a few blocks from the Lombardos (see above), an older and more fabled musician was celebrating too. For 74-year-old Léon Rothier, whose bass had boomed through three decades at the Metropolitan Opera, it was just 50 years since his debut at Paris' Comedie Française...
...Family Affair. A confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...