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...bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergötland, brother of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and his wife, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, sister of both King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway. (The three last named were children of King Frederik VIII of Denmark.) Bourgeois Stockholmers nodded approval at this celebration of Leopold's birthday not at the Royal Palace but in the quietly sumptuous apartment of Prince Carl...
With natural family pride, I have traced my genealogy back to the days of Henry VIII and Baron Forecast, the first of our line of whom there is written record. And he was a great man. Contemporary chronicles show that he was much sought after and that once when he went to the Tower of London (even in those days the Forecasts had entree every-where) on a matter of business, he died very suddenly. We have all been very proud of the Baron...
...first two weeks in October. Most forecasters, that is. But not I. "The blacker the cloud, the silverer the lining," was graven on the Forecast coat of arms centuries ago when the first Baron Forecast was Lord High Grave-Digger in Waiting for the wives of Henry VIII. And that's the way I am. So paste these in you hat until you read your Sunday papers...
...Fogg Mus.17* Wed. at 4.30 Fogg Mus.22* Consult Professor PopeFRENCHA Wed. at 3 Emerson DB Wed. at 12 Sever A1 I, II Th. at 11 Sever 351 III, IV Th. at 12 Sever 351 V, VI Wed. at 1 Sever 62 I, II Wed. at 9 Sever 302 III-VIII Wed. at 10 Sever 352 IX-XIV Wed. at 11 Emerson D2 XV-XVII Wed. at 1 Sever 173 Wed. at 1 Sever 114 Wed. at 2 Sever 196 Th. at 10 Harvard 67 Wed. at 11 Emerson J9 Wed. at 10 Harvard 113hf* Sat., Oct. 2 at 10 Sever...
...consort, Elizabeth, continued their placid, adequate existence. He often pounds a type- writer-often reads his poems in Chinese magazines. She (never an Empress, for they were not married until 1923) possesses a physical beauty as striking as his own good looks. Because of his admiration for Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth he has bestowed upon himself and his consort the given names of those spry sovereigns...