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...Sheldon Grade School, where she has the third grade, Miss Lizzie found teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...
...daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
Sweden's attention turned to nine-month-old Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, the dead Prince's son and next in line for the throne. Only the week before, Prince Carl had made his first official appearance when he granted audience to a French envoy and accepted a gold tumbler. Said Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet approvingly: "Carl Gustaf acted with extreme dignity...
...Received Amir Saud, heir-apparent to the throne of Saudi Arabia, and gave the Crown Prince an autographed picture in return for a jeweled sword and dagger...
LONDON, January 23--The Four-Power Deputy Foreign Ministers Council has agreed to write into the Austrian peace treaty a permanent vote on any future claim of the once mighty Hapsburg dynasty to the non-existent Austrian throne, an American informant said today...