Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Soprano Moore and Prince Gustaf Adolf were fellow passengers on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-3 bound for Stockholm. She was booked for a Stockholm concert. He was returning to his family after a week's hunting with The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard. At Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport the plane, piloted by 54-year-old Gerrit J. Geyssendorffer, climbed 150 feet, stalled, rolled over, slammed to the ground and exploded...
Married. Sophia Christina Feith, 35, former governess of The Netherlands' royal children; and Johan Röell, 42, engineer; in the presence of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard; bridesmaids: Princess Beatrix, 8, Princess Irene, 7; in Hilversum, The Netherlands...
Fill Calhoun. currently Paris bureau chief, had two weeks in which to deliver a very tough job of reporting. Heretofore, getting French communists to talk had been about as easy as nailing a cherry pie to a wall. Calhoun assigned Bernhard Frizell, an experienced reporter who speaks French fluently, to question ordinary communists as to why they joined the party and to interview Mme. Thorez, who turned out to be strongly reminiscent of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Juliana had better marital luck than her mother. Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was another German princeling, and vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
...Bernhard, who pilots his own plane, recently toured Scandinavia with Juliana ("Lula" to him) to thank the ruling houses for the relief sent Holland. The Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...