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...King Cotton tottering on his throne? In the worried South, researchers preparing for the coming postwar battle with rayon and other synthetic upstarts have been hard at work experimenting with likelier strains, new methods of machine cultivation (TIME, Nov. 13). Last week they heard good news : a Georgia State Experiment Station has developed a "super cotton" which may give the king new life. The new strain, called "Empire...
...quiet Surrey countryside, King Peter went for a quiet walk with his pretty wife, the former Princess Alexandra of Greece, who is expecting an heir to their vanishing throne...
Laments and Regrets. The man who will be the 99th occupant of the Throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury received the press around the Christmas tree in Fulham Palace. His Lordship, a bald, long-eared, thin-lipped man, shoved the oldfashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles from his hooked nose to his forehead, jokingly lamented the terrifying job of moving in wartime, seriously lamented that anyone new should have to go to Lambeth Palace just now. Said he: "My great regret is that there should be this vacancy to fill. I knew Dr. Temple from the time when I was an undergraduate...
...London Churchill wasted no time. He sent for King George. The 54-year-old Greek monarch was apprehensive that a temporary relinquishment of his throne might become permanent-that, in effect, he might be signing his abdication. But after Churchill had talked with him for an hour he consented to the Regency. A royal proclamation announced that the Archbishop had been authorized to "take all steps necessary to restore order and tranquility," that the King would not return to Greece "unless summoned by a free and fair expression of national will." The Archbishop proclaimed his own immediate two-point plan...
...took his degree in government with honors, proceeded to an M.A. at Columbia. Through his American Council on African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools, 380,305 pupils. Nnewi and three other Nigerian states, he reports, have already contributed more than $120,000 for new colleges...