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...greatest humanitarian in the U.S.A." by Manhattan's Greenwich Village Humane League (for animals), which gave him the Paddy Reilly Honor Medal for his newspaper campaigns against vivisection. Last year the Medal went to Princess Elizabeth because she had promised that on her accession to the British throne all work horses would have a Sunday holiday...
...Aimone was nominated to the throne of the new puppet kingdom of Croatia. But never did a mouse give a trap wider berth than the new Tomislav II gave his kingdom. He preferred to frolic in Florence. With the armistice Aimone joined the Italian Navy, but managed to maintain his heavy social schedule...
...Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which the warlords had access to the throne...
Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
...original Grimm, here reproduced, stepmothers are so hardhearted that the reader can have no sympathy with them whatever. The Queen in Snow White actually eats the supposed liver and lungs of her hated stepdaughter. Cinderella's stepmother will not acquiesce in her ugly daughters' loss of a throne merely because their feet are outsize. With the practical observation that "when you are a Queen you will have no more need to go on foot," she casually lops off a toe or a heel to make the Prince's slipper...