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...royal guests through town for a little prenuptial sightseeing at the Rijkmuseum and the city's famed diamond-cutting centers. Europe's wealthiest reigning family, the 400-year-old House of Orange, was about to marry apple-cheeked Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...
...palace to the tune of Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high fur busbies. Said a watching Dutchman: "We look more military than the Germans...
Just before Christmas, nine years ago, the bulletin board at the Crowell Collier Building in New York carried a grimly humorous notice: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits...
...Valachi, the twelve days of Christmas always turned up 13. "I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking," he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. "But all I would get on Christmas was having my father try and give me a glass of whisky." So, as any child psychologist might have predicted, Joe joined the Cosa Nostra, muscled his way up through the ranks and then, in a long-running 1963 TV series that might have been called 1,000 Days with Bobby Kennedy, transferred his allegiance to the Irish Mafia...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...