Word: mountbatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While bachelors the world over mourned a lost shot at the British regency, the crowned heads of Cambridge assembled this morning in Adams House A-42, the residence of John Jay Hughes '48, to solemnize by wireless the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten...
...Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
...Corsham, England, Lieut. Philip Mountbatten presided at the dedication of a new war memorial. Another unveiler, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was back home in Texas, to dedicate a statue of Will Rogers at Fort Worth, while Margaret Truman sang Home on the Range...
...true "Glasgow weather," some 30,000 Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...Delhi, Earl Louis Mountbatten, lean, well-tailored Governor General of the agonized Dominion of India, received medical attention for a ligament. He wrenched his arm playing polo...