Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windsor, England, the Duke of Edinburgh, who recently won his pilot's wings, flew a U.S.-made Harvard trainer (the Navy's SNJ) sporting the insigne of his new rank: the five white stars of an R.A.F. marshal...
Today the key plugger is a suede-shod salesman with a Windsor-knotted tie who goes by the Tin Pan Alley title of "professional manager." His job is to convince record manufacturers that his publisher's song is headed for the bestseller lists. There is plenty of music for record men to choose from; after a weary week of listening, they are ready to believe that every third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts...
...Tall Texan (Lippert) is a short-order horse opera about a group of as sorted characters lusting for gold and a woman in the wide open spaces of the old West. After approximately an hour of gunplay, almost everyone is killed off, except the girl (Marie Windsor) and a strong, silent type (Lloyd Bridges), who have come to love each other. Of some interest to western fans may be the weird New Mexican rock formations that abound in the film...
Died. Douglas Chandor, 55, wealthy portraitist of the high-ranked and highborn; of a cerebral hemorrhage in Weatherford, Texas. British-born Artist Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others...
With an announcement in Paris, the Duke of Windsor put an end to speculation which has kept protocol experts worrying: although he may be in London at the time, neither he nor the Duchess of Windsor will attend the coronation next June. Reason: "It would not be in accordance with constitutional usage for the coronation of a King or Queen of England to be attended by the sovereign or former sovereign of any state...