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...London, Buckingham Palace was romantically aflutter over the marriage of Robina MacDonald, 37, personal maid to Princess Margaret, and Norman Gordon, 32, onetime footman to Queen Elizabeth, now a post-office telephonist. Queen Mother Elizabeth personally supervised the baking of the wedding cake...
...group didn't ask Mulvihill to resign, but forced the union's board of directors to call an election for the presidency. Instead of running for the job themselves, they put up Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman for the top position and Mrs. Helen Maynard, a maid in Eliot House, for the vice-presidency. Mulvihill suddenly withdrew from the race, and Wyman was elected. But the pace proved too tough, and Wyman resigned after only a month in office. No one knew exactly...
Even the lesser characters are hewed to the party line. Maid Marion is subtly un-American as she romps with the Merrie Men and casually disavows Motherhood. Friar Tuck is nothing if not the cleric who has lost all vestiges of his religion in the service of the state. But the author was most clever in his treatment of Little John; by proper manipulation of the dialectic, Little John Becomes its antithesis...
...longest, most thorough U.S. tour ever made by reigning monarchs. Behind them, King Paul and his buoyant Queen left some thoroughly tired Americans. "I could sleep for a week," sighed Mrs. Victoria Gainey, the housekeeper at Blair House. "But you must say so," replied Queen Frederika's personal maid: "She looked like an angel...
...maid sweeps about the room emptying ashtrays and straightening chairs. The Deans have just left, the Harvard Dames will begin arriving any minute. The man from the museum is coming later with a choice of pictures for the living room. There are notes to answer, calls to make, invitations to accept or postpone...