Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through the state university at Austin, and married a Texas girl, Wilhelmina Kuenstler of Sweet Home in Lavaca County...
...done much more than catch the coattails of success in both art and business. Steuben now has some 20,000 customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
...clock on the morning of her 70th birthday, Princess Wilhelmina, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948, gathered together her paints and easel, silently left Het Loo palace to work on a half-finished landscape. Later in the day she joined Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and her four granddaughters for a quiet family party...
...honor Queen Wilhelmina's jubilee, 58-year-old Composer Hendrik Andriessen, director of The Hague's Royal Conservatory, had written a new score for an old drama. The grisly story, adopted by Dutch Poet Jan Engelman from one of the episodes in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, tells how pure-voiced Philomela is raped by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who cuts out her tongue to enforce her silence. The sisters get revenge by feeding Tereus the remains of his slaughtered son at a banquet. At that point the gods intervene and change all three into birds-Philomela into...
There are several songs in this picture, including a ballad called "baby Won't You Say You Love Me" and "Wilhelmina, The Cutest Little Girl in Copenhagen." The former is the key to Miss Grable's downfall because what little voice she has is not sufficient to sustain a note. Unfortunately the number has several sustained notes...