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Handsome, auto-racing Prince Rainier III, 26, mounted the throne of the 370-acre kingdom of Monaco, which recently installed dice tables in its Monte Carlo casino to shake more dollars out of crap-shooting Americans. The youthful bachelor ruler succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, who died last...
Prince Akihito, heir to the Japanese throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
...exclusive story, with a four-column picture, told of the marriage of a well-to-do New Orleans woman, 36-year-old Virginia Kirk, and 26-year-old Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern, described as "youngest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany" and heir to his abdicated throne...
...abashed, the Item ran another Page One picture of Otto and Virginia, reported the ROYAL HOUSEHOLD IN TURMOIL. Said the Item: "The last of the purported kaisers today had apparently abdicated his throne, after using it ... to get married to a socially prominent New Orleans woman . . . The bride is becoming suspicious. 'Who is he?' she wants to know...
...been eating in hotels and hash-houses, sleeping when he could, trying to stay fit for one big match after another. Last week Big Jake cast a quizzical eye upon 190-lb. Pancho Gonzales, 21, twice U.S. amateur champion and current aspirant to Kramer's professional throne. Said Kramer: "He'll melt off some of that weight, and every pound will make it tougher on me. Pancho didn't get enough work as an amateur...