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Born. To Princess Caroline Mathilde, 27, and Second Son Prince Knud of Denmark. 39: their second child, a son, thus securing the line of succession to the throne, there being no other male heir in the royal family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...daughter that few competitors have a chance against her. Last year and the year before, she edged out peppy Audrey Peppe, whose brilliant free skating stopped the show. This year, with Miss Peppe out of competition (she is skating in a professional ice show), Queen Joan found her throne threatened by another equally brilliant free skater, a newcomer to U. S. competition: 17-year-old Heddy Stenuf. A Viennese who finished second to England's Megan Taylor in the world's championship at Prague last year, vivacious little Heddy captivated the spectators last week with her spins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tozzer v. Stenuf | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Crimson hopes were high until the 8 to 3 debacle at Hanover last week. The Green bounced back from their Princeton defeat with a vengeance and served notice on the rest of the league that they were going to put up a real fight before being toppled from their throne. Princeton's last move was a 1 to 1 tie with Yale (probably on about a par with Harvard), but the Vaughanmen should rate a slight edge over Clark Hodder's squad in tonight's fray. The tie with Yale was not necessarily a letdown for the Tigers; the Elis...

Author: By Donold Peddia, | Title: What's His Number? | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...Nazi bigwigs in Germany. But she never got in to see Chancellor Hitler. Since Hitler made it plain that he wanted no Emperor in Germany, Wilhelm and Hermine have pinned their hopes to the monarchist faction of the German Army. No longer do they hope to get the throne for themselves, but want it for Wilhelm's favorite grandson, Louis Ferdinand, the onetime Detroit Ford worker who married Grand Duchess Kyra of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wilhelm's Solution | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Winchellian political terminology, Pierce has been called a New Dealer because of his backing of the 1938 Conway Committee revolt (TIME, Feb. 7, 1938) which purged the Old Guard from Stock Exchange leadership, installed young, earnest Bill McChesney Martin on Sing Sing First Baseman Dick Whitney's throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Buying at the Bottom? | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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