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...minute ceremony. The prince was holed up in his navy barracks, and the duchess was smothering her sadness in the snows of Switzerland, accompanied by daughters BEATRICE, 7 and EUGENIE, 6. "Of course, it's sad," she told reporters. Although she added that the duke and she were "the bestest of friends," by all accounts it was she who, after four years of separation, pushed for the divorce. It couldn't have been for money. The $3 million she got was mostly earmarked for the care of the children, leaving her in a nasty debt hole. (She's said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1996 | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Night at the Opera [1939]. The without-a-doubt-no-questions-asked-all-complex-time-bestest-of-the-most-magisterial stuff by the Marx Brothers. Ch. 5, 5 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...

Author: By Lester F. Greenspoon, | Title: TELEVISION | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

While Cairo's foreign press corps worriedly met to plan some defense against expulsion, Correspondent Stevenson flew to Rome and, in the black-and-white Japanese kimono that he wears while writing, pounded out the reply to his office's urgent cable to FILE STORY SOONEST MOSTEST BESTEST. Star readers soon learned in glittering detail that Stevenson first offended the Egyptians by trying twice in the same day-and getting arrested both times-to get an interview with Ex-Premier Mohammed Naguib, under house arrest 15 miles out of Cairo. What riled the Egyptians even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Star's Star | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Princes from toads may appear, cows may jump over the moon, and Texans may decide that the Lone Star State is not the biggest and bestest after all-report any of these things in your excellent publication and I'll not hesitate to believe. But when you guys term the comic strip Dick Tracy a form of "art" [Sept. 21], then you've gone too far. Your statement is not only the most; it's too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...many ways "Viva O'Brien" is the biggest, bestest, most extravagant and ambitious musical show ever to be piled up on the boards and shoveled across the footlights of Boston's peaceful old Shubert Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

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