Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telephone callers from Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and Australia have importuned Governor Brown to spare Chessman's life. Brown has received save-Chessman pleas from Belgium's Queen Mother and from the Social Democratic members of Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Secretary of State Christian Herter told his press conference last week that the Chessman case had stirred up "quite a surprising amount of interest" in South America. In Brazil, circulators of a save-Chessman petition claim more than 2,500,000 signatures. In The Netherlands, record dealers are profiting from brisk demand...
...fact Khrushchev had already sent word that in France he intended to confine himself to two courses and two wines per meal. The trip might also have to be shorter, for everybody's international tourist calendar is already jammed up: De Gaulle himself is scheduled to visit the Queen in London in three weeks, and Canada and the U.S. next month. Home is almost the last place to find a head of state these days...
...Long is not among them. She is one of the best English teachers ever seen at one of the country's best high schools. Just 24 last week, and married to a medical student at Northwestern University, she has the face and figure of a campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling her. Teacher De Long is a perfectionist; she conscientiously demands-and scrupulously grades...
...Meet the Queen. Julian Myrick started out in the insurance business as a $25-a-week applications clerk in 1898, soon struck up a friendship with another clerk, an athlete, organist and composer from Yale named Charles Ives. In 1907 they established their own office, soon were selling nearly $2,000,000 a year...
...always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick flattered the Queen of Spain into a doubles match (Queen Victoria, with Vincent Richards, beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Myrick...