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...Ghilini claims to own $250,000 worth of paintings and art objects, including a Titian, a Gainsborough, a Rubens, a Romney, which he plans to exhibit in Manhattan this winter. Last summer Dr. Di Ghilini beheld and coveted, in West Hollywood's Old Colony Antique Shop, a throne which appeared to him to be of hammered silver and gold, of the 16th Century or earlier. Summoning his powers of hocuspocus, Dr. Di Ghilini made small purchases, casually asked Joseph Osiel, tall, excitable part owner of the shop, about the throne. It would cost $2,000, said Mr. Osiel...
...British were persuaded by French émigrés that a monarchist uprising against the revolutionaries could easily be started in France, and that it would soon sweep the country, to the glory of Britain and her throne. The British backed a handful of braided and powdered French officers with phony French money printed by the solid Bank of England. These cadres were also supplied by the British with arms and uniforms for 17,000 infantrymen and 6,000 cavalrymen, who were supposed to be waiting for their chance. When the expedition arrived at Quiberon Bay, it found less than...
...With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
...children was officially secret but they were known to be "out of London" and on Sunday Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose went to church with their parents in the Chapel Royal at Windsor Castle. Princess Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks...
...cradle his father was two-timing with the now forgotten Mme. Zizi Lambrino. When he was a lad of five Mihai was made King under a Regency, but three years later, in 1930, Scapegrace Carol flew back from exile and with Army backing took the throne from his son. Jesuitical historians last week could recall nobody else since the world began who was King before & after his father...