Word: englande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Than Personal. To prepare for the confrontation with his tough, clever cold-war adversary, Eisenhower flew to Europe in late August, there to consult and coordinate plans with U.S. allies. In Germany, the land overrun by his Allied armies, in England, the country from which he had launched his vast command upon Europe, and in Paris, the city he had liberated, the swell of popular emotion brought a mist to an old soldier's eyes. The tribute was more than personal. When Ike left Europe, he knew that it was in his capacity as the President...
Whiffenpoof & Hair Spray. The guests began arriving at 10 p.m.: Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill (son of the Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year...
John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 45, Premier Earl of England and Bearer of the White Wand at the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell...
Actor & Husband. Flynn set out for England to make his fortune as an actor. On the way, to hear him tell it, he stopped off at every gambling hell, opium den and bawdyhouse from Macao to Marseilles. Late in 1932, he joined the Royal Hong Kong Volunteers to fight the Japanese in Shanghai, deserted when the going got tough. Eventually he got to London alive, landed a job in a provincial repertory group, later a bit part in a British film...