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...before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a Woman?Wallis Warfield Simpson, first to make a King of England swap his throne for a woman ? and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...times from 1870 until his death in 1883 he was spoken of in Government circles as Henri V. I think you will find that all but officially Chambord is considered as Henri V of France. It is quite likely that Paris might take the title if he gained the throne, but I am sure his choice would be Henri...
High on a red hill above the sunburned plains of Equatorial Africa, in the hereditary palace surrounded by flame trees, Mutesa II, 35th directly descended Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, one of Uganda's three provinces, last week ascended the old stool which serves as throne for the Kingdom...
...neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
...Seabrook's earliest boyish pleasures had been to gaze at pictures of women in chains. One day Grandmother Seabrook had shown him "a throne on which a girl sat, robed in green . . . her ankles bound by shining metal circlets joined by a gleaming chain." Young Seabrook pressed his hands against her ankles "until my own hands held and drew the chains tighter." From that time on, William had two ambitions-to be a writer like his grandfather (editor of the American Sentinel) and to chain women. As a boy he lassoed little girls. As a man he spent...