Word: monaco
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...Constitution at sea, April 10--This is my first exclusive report from aboard the S.S. Constitution where life is just one big, mad, gay whirl. The excitement increases as the wedding of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Prince Rainier (pronounced Rey-ney) of Monaco approaches. One of the years most exciting and exclusive press conferences marked the sailing of this liner. With regal poise, Miss Kelly discussed her future with a few hundred reporters. She flashed that charming smile and said, "I do wish people would be more considerate and stop stomping on each other." Grace is such a thoughtful...
Well that's all for now because I must speak to the cabin boy who has a cousin who sings in the choir of the Monaco Cathedral. Oh the entire affair is just too thrilling. Even the cabin...
Various bulletins and events livened the week in the far-flung Kelly-Rainier prenuptials as they roared toward the April 17-19 fiesta in Monaco. Items...
...order was a surprise to Monaco's press bureau, headed by Actor Jean Gastaud-Mercury and assisted by Charles A. Smith, on special leave as I.N.S. Euro pean general manager. Though Smith organized photographic pool coverage of the 1956 Olympics and D-day in Normandy, and sat on the committee that made press arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the new project promised to be his toughest. Smith urgently wired the Prince to try to persuade him to let at least a few newsmen in for the ceremonies on a pool basis...
...Hollywood figures lucky enough to be among the 125 most intimate friends on Grace's own invitation list include the Alfred Hitchcocks, the Cary Grants, the David Nivens, Frank Sinatra. Ava Gardner, Bing Crosby. The palace at Monaco announced that invitations had gone to foreign royalty and heads of state, including President Eisenhower. But the crowned heads of Britain, Denmark and Sweden let it be known that they could not make it, and presidential assistants rummaged through the White House last week without finding an invitation. Prince Rainier also told newsmen that New York's Cardinal Spellman would...