Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needn't have fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick...
...summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest...
Madrid belonged to Evita last week. Not since the welcome to Hekirich Himmler in 1940 had the Franco regime tuned up a reception as thunderous as the one it handed the dashing blonde wife of Argentina's President Juan Perón. Evita drew even larger crowds than had ever turned out for Dictator Franco himself. "Of course," went the explanation, "she's better looking...
...France and England-where she was already getting catcalls from the press. The Socialist Party has urged French Premier Paul Ramadier to declare her unacceptable. And London's big, breezy Sunday Pictorial, which was howling at Argentine beef prices, screamed from a frontpage banner, PRESIDENT'S WIFE is NOT WELCOME. But Evita was used to brickbats; they had not stopped her before...
...Information Services, "may soon become famous as a fashion artist. . . ." Basis for this conjecture: Cinema-Hard-Guy Mason had designed some ladies' scarves which were now turning up for sale in stores. Pictured by Actor Mason on the scarves: Noel Coward, the Masons' pet cats, James Mason & wife...