Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter Anna Boettiger had each received a silk-embroidered harem gown. "We had quite a show the other night," said Eleanor Roosevelt primly, explaining that they had merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed as a gift from the Sultan...
Lady of the Lake. Of the Italian refugees in Switzerland, the one with the best chance of returning to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian Fascists. She was Princess Marie-José, daughter of the late King Albert of the Belgians and wife of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto. She lived quietly, with her children and her sedate sister-in-law, Countess Calvi di Bergolo, waiting to see if Italy would be safe for monarchy...
Last fall Mikkola entertained hopes of having his "big three" combination of Pete Harwood, Dave Murray, and Jeff Tootell around for spring competition. But Murray (holder of national inter-collegiate javelin crown) has been transferred to Midshipmen School, while Tootell (who entered College last November after copping the national scholastic shot-put title) has gone into the Army, leaving only Harwood, who is now a Sophomore in the V-12 program. Other men who have left include Tuttle, Atwell, Wharton, Noble, and Meanix...
Over a year ago the Army moved the Crown Can Co. from its Madison plant to make way for the newly formed R.M.R. Corp., a subsidiary of RayOVac Co. R.M.R. had the scientists, the know-how and the Army orders for a new kind of battery needed in the South Pacific...
Five years of exile were all that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm could stand. After that, he scraped along with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost...