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King Leopold III, storm center of Belgian politics since his surrender to the Germans in World War II, announced that he was giving up his throne next month, two months ahead of the promised date. Then His Majesty, with his commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, departed for a two-week vacation at the French Riviera. After the coronation of Leopold's eldest son July 17, Belgium's new monarch will be Baudouin...
...Discovered valuable deposits of uranium in Canada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico (though nothing has yet been found to equal the Belgian Congo's fabulous Shinkelowbe mine...
Married. Sir Charles Mendl, 80, onetime British diplomatic press attache and widower of the U.S.-born international society hostess, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl; and Mme. Yvonne Riley, 37, Belgian-born violinist; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris...
...prize: 150,000 Belgian francs ($2,970), a prearranged 65-concert tour of Western Europe...
...week's end, Brussels music lovers got a rare dividend: a performance by the great David Oistrakh himself. Wearing his Stalin Prize medal, 42-year-old Oistrakh hypnotized them with a splendid playing of Bach's double concerto (with Belgian Violinist Arthur Grumiaux). At the end, the audience, including Queen Mother Elisabeth, stood and gave a four-minute ovation to the man who is Russia's finest violinist, and surely one of the finest in the world. It was his first performance in Western Europe in 14 years...