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Rita did not disappoint her faithful followers. From Manhattan, she regally announced her plans for a "legal and permanent separation" from Aly Khan, heir to fabulous wealth and her erstwhile partner in an international courtship that lifted eyebrows around the world...
After that, despite the thunderous threats of an Alexander or a Genghis Khan, Europe keeps the stage. Greece falls exhausted from her wars; Rome emerges as the "carrier" of Greek culture, and ends as the "carrier" of Christianity. Christendom, which strives in vain to find a political heir to Rome, eventually splits into the ages of Italy, Spain, France and England...
...British weekly Spectator took seasonal note of a social item: "The lady who is apparently still generally known as Rita Hayworth has arrived in the United States with her two children. Her husband Aly Khan has not. He explains that 'it is impossible for me to leave Europe now that the . . . racing season is starting.' Clearly and manifestly impossible. How stimulating to find someone prepared to put first things first...
...wild weeks in the summer of 1529, it seemed to be the end of Europe. The Unspeakable Turk, Sultan Suleiman Khan, had smashed the Hungarian capital of Buda and thundered on, 170 incredible miles in one week, to the gates of Vienna. In an instant, Europe broke off its feuds. France and the Holy Roman Empire patched up a quick truce; even the Pope and Martin Luther buried the ecclesiastical mace for the time being. Twenty days later it was all over, and everybody felt a bit silly. The invader packed up his plunder and poled off down the Danube...
...career of Sultan Suleiman (rhymes with rule a don), last of the great Osmanli Turks, was just beginning. Harold Lamb's biographical narrative, Suleiman the Magnificent, tells the story of his reign with the skill that has made Lamb's retraces of history (from Genghis Khan to The March of Muscovy") among the most popular in print...