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...palace crisis that has openly rocked The Netherlands and not too privately estranged Queen Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard, moved closer to resolution. Juliana accepted with overflowing gratitude "for services rendered" the resignations of her private secretary, Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, and his buddy, the Queen's chamberlain, Johann van Maasdick. Significance of the quittings: the baron's family first introduced the Queen to Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25), whose metaphysical grip on Juliana led to the crisis...
...Oliver Smith-have hit on a kind of scene-a-minute technique. Their slapdash method, though highly uncreative, is not entirely illadvised. Thanks to Morton DaCosta's lively staging, it makes speed a kind of substitute for wit, and puts pedestrian writing on horseback. Its quick-changes also consort well with Auntie Mame's scatterbrained nature, besides providing a fine succession of new costumes, new hairdos, new wall treatments, new gaffes, new predicaments...
...Problem Child Is Made. Queen Victoria could never understand why parents as admirable as herself and Prince Consort Albert should have had an heir like "Bertie." Most of the people at court took instinctively to the "fair little lad," but, according to palace gossip, the Queen thought him "stupid" from the very start, and "in all [her] published letters which range over the Prince's childhood, there is not one word of praise for his character, not a single endearing anecdote, not a trace of pride or pleasure in his personality." Bertie detested pedantry and loved people. His parents...
...Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard of his spirituality. Intercourse with him is to be determined by the purity of his deeds, and consort with him by the degree of his intelligence. This alone is to determine the degree to which a man is to be loved or hated...
Between chukkers of a polo game played at Windsor Great Park, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a word with her hard-riding husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, while Prince Charles and Princess Anne stood by. Later touring Devonshire, the Queen and her consort had a close scrape when a roadside throng, pressing forward to see the royal pair, toppled a badly anchored 20-ft. flagpole across the highway only a moment after the Queen's open car had passed the spot...