Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Herbert B. Khaury, fortyish, better known as Tiny Tim; and Victoria Budinger, 17 (see TELEVISION...
...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...almost impossible for people in the public eye to escape from rumors. That paragon of puritanical virtue, Queen Victoria, was thought by some of her contemporaries to be the secret wife of Disraeli or the secret mistress of her Scottish gillie, John Brown. Since rumor sometimes represents vicarious wish fulfillment, certain movie stars have been popularly credited with sexual exploits that defy physical ability...
After "two free drinks at each party," the tourists and their dates were offered dinner for two at proper Simpson's-in-the-Strand, temporary membership and gambling privileges at the Victoria Sporting Club, a pair of tickets to a West End musical or play, and free admission to eleven dizzy discotheques and five dance halls. Ticket holders would also be entitled to hotel reservations, private bath and "full English breakfast," though it was not promised that the "scientifically chosen" date would share those. Surprisingly enough, the seemingly irresistible BOAC tour did not get off the ground...