Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even the presence of Their Serene Highnesses Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco couldn't brighten the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City after rain softened the course and the favored Swaps was scratched with an injured forefoot. However, C. V. Whitney's Career Boy ran the race of his life to catch Find and Mr. Gus in the stretch...
...Philip Barry's old hit, The Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow and gravel-growl his way through it. The result, unhappily, is strictly plebeian...
...Monaco's most pressing internal problem is, of course, whether Princess Grace is pregnant. In Paris Prince Rainier III kept his own counsel. But a correspondent for CIP, international Catholic news agency, reported that the Prince's chaplain, Delaware's garrulous Father Francis Tucker, had told all: "I see no reason to deny information which will soon be made official...
...their first official public appearance since their April wedding, Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply...
...paces away in tiny Monaco, Grandma Marlene Dietrich headed for Paris in a huff after Monte Carlo's stuffy old Casino refused to admit her in toreador pants. Another Monte Carlo visitor who fared worse than Marlene was spaniel-faced Cinemadman Mischa (Something Always Happens) Auer. He 1) broke an arm in a fall off a low stool, 2) then suffered a deep cut on his rump in a tumble from bed as he reached for a bottle (mineral water), 3) on rising from his bed of pain, met a friend whose hearty get-well backslap dislocated Auer...