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Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...
...casual classes in kingship and a talk about the facts of royal life with his father (said George V: "Always remember . . . who you are"). But the Prince's "mature development" was left pretty much to chance. One of the only positive pieces of advice came from an old courtier who observed: "Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down."* The Prince's first important royal job was an exciting and educational 150,000-mile road show as "Britain's Best Salesman." "The generous applause that greeted...
...Come, Good Bride." Michael and Anne spent the last few days before their wedding in leisure; one afternoon they watched the demonstration of a new British jet plane. "The only thing that took Michael's interest off Annie," remarked a courtier, "was that plane. The rest of the time they held hands...
...Spaak lives simply in a modest bourgeois neighborhood, with his tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of Sweden ("Am I a courtier? I am a Socialist!"). Lately Spaak (a 200-pounder) has given up the sport, presumably haunted by the memory of his belt giving way on a Brussels court...
...more interested members of the audience will discern a plot snuggling its way into the epic. It now appears that Robert Donat has been dancing altogether too many quadrilles with the queen, who is not incongruously impersonated by Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit is broken; his chicken salad days are gone, and he ends...