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...Prince has been married twice, first to Margaret, daughter of Britain's Duke of Connaught and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who bore him four sons and a daughter. The eldest son and heir apparent to the throne is Prince Gustaf Adolf, a mere youngster of 37 with three charming daughters, Margaretha, Birgitta and Désirée.* The daughter, Ingrid, is married to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The second son, Sigvard, married a commoner. The other two sons, Bertil and Carl Johan, are with the Swedish Navy and Army...
Before week's end, the Bey got fired. General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis. To the beylical throne, in accordance with dynastic tradition, went Sidi Mounsaf's oldest living male relative, unpolitical Sidi Al Amin...
...Department had encouraged the youthful pretender to the Austrian throne to recruit such an Army unit. Last week, tacitly admitting its mistake, the Army quietly announced the disbanding of the battalion...
From Ethiopia, almost forgotten since the British freed it from the Italians and restored Emperor Haile Selassie to his ancient throne, came a firsthand account last "week of life as the Lion of Judah and his people find it under British protection...
...William Shakespeare; produced by Theater Productions) is Broadway's only revival of Shakespeare this season. It is not a very rewarding one. Richard III is second-rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John Barrymore, made...