Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canals in Brussels. Stroking his handlebar mustache, the bartender explained how the King became bitter. "There Leopold was-a young, handsome, dashing fellow anxious to make a splash in the world the way the Prince of Wales was doing over in England. What happened? His father was Albert, le roi chevalier, and his popularity put the boy completely in the shade. Then Leopold got married, and his bride turned out to be Astrid, one of the prettiest princesses you ever saw. She used to wheel her babies right through the park, sit down with the other mothers and talk diapers...
...Fruits & Flowers." Not only in Le Pot but all over Belgium, people were excitedly thrashing out the question of whether the King-tall, blond Leopold-Philippe -Charles -Albert -Meinrad -Huber-tus-Marie-Miguel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, otherwise known as Leopold III-should come back from exile to resume the throne. It is the overriding issue in the June 26 elections, and by last week the campaign was hot and ferocious. The Christian Social Party (Catholic) favored Leopold's return. The Socialists and Communists were against it. Labor threatened a general strike if Leopold returned...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...
British connoisseurs were appalled by the fakery (see cut). In a joint letter to the Times, Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria' & Albert Museum, and other esthetes spluttered: "Reductio ad absurdum of the mania for the fake antique. These cars are ridiculous." Moaned the Manchester Guardian: "There are times when the British love of tradition seems not merely exaggerated but quite...
...essays, the James Gordon Bennett prize goes to Royden A. Keddy '49; the Philo Sherman Bennett award, to Immanuel H. Kohn '48; the DeLaucey K. Jay award to Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; and the Toppan award to George Albert Lanyi, Ph.D. candidate...