Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entrepreneur Parnes's merchandise is all live, and it all sings rock 'n' roll. In his six-room Kensington flat he houses, feeds, clothes and trains five young singers whom he dug up from mines, slums and back-alley pubs. Parnes guarantees each of the hipsters $2,800 his first year, $11,200 by his third year, plus 60% of all recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better...
Visiting in London, the early cinema's Mary Pickford, 65, stopped for a visit at the Kensington home of her slim, well-tailored, onetime stepson: Douglas Fairbanks...
...Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance, Kokoschka never let her see the painting, and she skipped the last two sittings...
...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...
Sole Searching. In Kensington, Conn., an FBI agent spotted new wires in his house, reasoned that someone was trying to tap his line, ripped them all out, shamefacedly learned that the wires had been specially installed for a hi-fi set his wife planned as a birthday present...