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While 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor, father of 43 children, attended to such chores of state as having audience of King Edward VIII, his young fourth wife busied herself in London last week buying presents for wives...
Striking was the juxtaposition of two seldom seen, well-guarded fortresses: Kentucky's Fort Knox, where the U. S. Treasury is to move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...
...with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings blushing shame to the cheeks of one of his salesmen with the hint: "I don't think it looks well for one of our representatives to run a foreign car." Nevertheless Edward VIII has a new Canadian Buick which the horrified United Kingdom industry considers "foreign...