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Juliana had better marital luck than her mother. Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was another German princeling, and vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
...Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands got a Bronze Star from General Eisenhower for unifying quarreling Dutch resistance groups...
Inevitably, as the trading in rye got hotter & sharper, some traders got hurt. One of those hurt the most (he lost over $800,000) was Vienna-born Bernhard Rosee (pronounced Roo-say), a cosmopolitan gentleman who has traded on the commodity exchanges of Liverpool, Paris, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Winnipeg and New York...
...Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...