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MEMORIES AND VAGARIES?Axel Munthe ?Dutton...
...edition (364 copies) slid simply down the ways, struggled unostentatiously against the flood, then sank apparently without a trace. But ten months later it emerged again as a bestseller, led all non-fiction books for eleven months.* So famed grew The Story of San Michele and its author, Dr. Axel Munthe, that shrewd Publisher Dutton wanted to launch another Munthe book. Not having a new one handy he raised from the bottom, where it had been reposing out of print since 1898, Memories and Vagaries...
...Author. Axel Munthe, 72, one-time cynically fashionable doctor, confidant (he sometimes extricated himself from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...
...royal families. But Belgian editors scanning the catalog of names were scandalized to note that the founder of the Belgian royal house, King Leopold I (Queen Victoria's "wise Uncle Leopold") had been omitted. Next day little Prince Baudouin was officially amended to read: "Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave," gained a pound...
Born. A son, heir apparent to the Belgian throne; to the Crown Princess Astrid Sophie Louise Thrya, niece of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and Crown Prince Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel, Due de Brabant. Weight: 8 Ib. 11 oz. Name: Baudouin* Albert Axel Marie Gustave...