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...Journal abruptly found itself in an unladylike contest for the throne. That year McCall's, equipped with a vigorous new editor, Herbert Mayes, and plenty of money from its new proprietor, West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, set out to topple the complacent queen. By 1961, McCall's had passed the Journal in both ad revenue ($37.6 million to $27.1 million) and total circulation (7,400,000 to 7,200,000), though the Journal still enjoyed a narrow lead in newsstand sales...
Show of Hands. Mahendra, 41, revered as a reincarnation of Vishnu and also known as King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior, Divine Emperor, ascended his throne in 1955. It had been secured for him by his father, who four years earlier toppled the prolific and powerful Rana family, which had ruled Nepal for a century. The young King was filled with democratic good intentions. A poet as well as a pragmatic politician, he personally edited a constitution for his 9,000,000 people (91 % illiterate) and gave his consent to Nepal's first national election...
...they lovers? Tinsley's Magazine for October 1868 reported that the English gentry jokingly referred to the Queen (then 49) as "Mrs. Brown." Punch ran a satirical Court Circular detailing the doings of Mr. John Brown; another magazine published a cartoon of John Brown lolling against a vacant throne; a scurrilous pamphlet, "Mrs. John Brown," was circulated, with the claim that they were morganatic man and wife...
Favor seekers still wait in the anteroom of Capitol Suite P-38. Secretary Mary Margaret Wiley still decorates a corner. In the cavernous inner office, known to many Capitol Hill denizens as the Throne Room, the lights on the telephone console still flicker on and off as Democratic Senate leaders call to report on the latest state of legislative affairs. Everything seems the same; yet nothing really is, for the past 13 months have seen a profound change in the life of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...club was formed in the late '40's small groups have passed down the reigns of leadership," Williams said. He claimed that the "ABC machine" had earmarked Richard B. Olson '63 and John Bayley '65--the brother of a former HYRC president--as the heirs apparent to the HYRC throne in the next two years...