The month's women's events — how many they are! Wherever you turn, to every corner of the world, you find woman surging with movement and boiling over with activity. In this new leap of hers, after the stagnation of generations, she is like a young man in the dawn of his youth.
In Lebanon, woman will enter the electoral battle in a few days; this news is set out in detail elsewhere in this issue.
In London, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the greatest event to occupy the world. Seventy-two states sent representatives to represent them at the ceremonies, which were attended by 4 million people, half a million of whom slept on the sidewalks the night before the ceremony to make certain of seeing the procession pass; a million people also watched the ceremonies by television, and pictures of them were carried by airplane to America and shown after only 12 hours... The young Queen, 27 years of age, came out seven times onto the balcony to greet the crowds, whose cheering thundered. The most beautiful sight of the ceremony was that of the Indian delegations with their great turbans and their mustaches, and the Scottish with their kilts... And of all the prominent women who attended the ceremony, only one was presented to the Queen: the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, who was wearing a sumptuous Pakistani dress. The Queen's crown, moreover, weighs three kilograms.
In the United States, President Eisenhower has adopted the policy of having America represented on important occasions by women. At the wedding of the Belgian Princess Josephine-Charlotte and Duke Jean, heir to the throne of the principality of Luxembourg, he charged Mrs. Perle Mesta, America's ambassador in Luxembourg, to stand in for him at the wedding ceremony; and for the coronation ceremonies of Queen Elizabeth he entrusted Mrs. Fleur Cowles with representing the United States there. Mrs. Cowles is a self-made woman who grew up in a poor
family; she first studied drawing, then worked at the age of 16 as an advertising artist for the stores, then rose to be director
of one of the great companies; she married the press king Gardner Cowles and joined him in running the magazine "Look." Fleur is counted among America's prominent ladies, and one of the ten women in America famed for elegance. She went to London as an official representative alongside General Marshall and the Governor of California, Earl Warren... Only one thing vexed Fleur and clouded her mood: the wearing of the hat, which she had not worn for ten years. The doctors proposed making special eyeglasses for her to wear at the ceremonies, and she refused. Alongside these two ladies, the papers speak of Mrs.
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