Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became adjutant to the Swedish Crown Prince, Swedish commissioner to the New York World's Fair, chairman of countless societies including the Y.M.C.A., the Swedish Association to Promote Swimming, the International Red Cross. In the last months of World War II he shuttled back & forth between Sweden and Germany; he arranged for the exchange of war prisoners, started negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for Germany's surrender. He remained true to the Scout motto: Alltid Redo (Be Prepared). When the U.N. appointed him its mediator in Palestine, he was not only ready, but eager...
...Tuebingen, Germany, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the Kaiser's eldest son, who is quietly living out his years in the French zone, was about to get a glittering reminder of the old days. The British, acting on a 1946 tip, had dug up the crown of the Hohenzollerns, hidden during the war under the false step of a crypt in a tiny church. This week, after some careful investigation to make sure of its authenticity, the gold-heavy gewgaw, studded with 150-odd rose-cut diamonds and topped by a giant sapphire, was on its way back...
...Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where a regimental commander is said to have told him: "Your Royal Highness had better find himself a throne...
...Amateur golf championship is almost anybody's tournament: not since Lawson Little (who won in 1934 and 1935) has a golfer taken the title two years in a row. At the Memphis Country Club last week, five former titleholders were among the 210 golfers seeking the crown of California's Defending Champion Robert H. ("Skee") Riegel...
Trainer Jimmy Jones was not as cocksure about Citation's chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy...