Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch in more than 100 years,* the old pram in which Queen Elizabeth herself was wheeled was dug out of the palace lumber room, tastefully refurbished in anticipation of its new royal occupant...
...Predecessor: Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Beatrice, who inherited her mother's longevity, died in 1944 aged 87, leaving one of the world's largest autograph collections. Elizabeth's first two children, Anne and Charles, were born before she became Queen...
Married. Whitelaw Reid, 46, a director and onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; and Elizabeth Ann Brooks, 27, executive secretary of the Fairfield Foundation (which promotes international cultural exchange); he for the second time, she for the first; in New Rochelle...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England, and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought...
...story about this fall's fashions long before the press-week release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen in other fields could only say amen...