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...adults gathered in the Dam to serenade her, 68-year-old Queen Wilhelmina could be seen plainly on the palace balcony, waving her hands like a drum majorette. Later on, at a huge pageant in the Olympic Stadium, the Queen clapped and laughed like a child at the circus. That day was Aug. 31, a day that has been the national holiday of The Netherlands for as long as most Hollanders could remember. "Why can't we celebrate the new Queen's birthday on Aug. 31 as well?" complained a visitor from the West Indies. "After...
Time was when the proceedings of anything calling itself the World Congress of Intellectuals would have been dignified and deadly dull. Last week, however, when such a congress met in Poland's Wroclaw (formerly Germany's Breslau), the spectators could not decide which ring of the circus to watch...
Family Fans. Betty's marriage (in Las Vegas on July 5, 1943) to Harry Haag James, the trumpeter son of a circus bandmaster and an aerialist mother, was all that a fan-magazine editor could ask for. James himself is no minor breadwinner ($100,036 in 1946). When he married Betty, the Grable fan clubs and the James fans merely merged into "The James Family Fan Clubs." When Betty had her first baby, her G.I. admirers promptly wrote their No. i pin-up girl to tell her all about their wives and their babies...
...Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled 6,180 miles, posed for pictures with local mayors and circus freaks, sang Chattanooga Choo Choo in Chattanooga, saw sausages, newspapers and automobiles being made...
With their less flamboyant, more businesslike way of politicking, Canadians would not have and did not want quite the kind of show the U.S. is staging this year. Yet they were going to have their own kind of circus, and in three rings, too (see below...