Word: dauphinate
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...LOST KING-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). "The modern Dumas'" 26th riproaring tale gives adventure story readers their money's worth in 379 pages about Louis XVI's son, the "Lost Dauphin...
...modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff...
...Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns from Ireland to "this precious stone...
...brilliant match for little Catherine than old Pope Leo had dared to dream about. At 14 she became the bride of heavy-lidded Henri, second son of the King of France. For a long time she was unable to conceive a child, and her sterility became important when the Dauphin died and her husband became heir to the throne. By trying everything once she managed, after ten barren years, to become a mother. Thereafter she triumphantly proved her ability by producing nine more children...
...deaths. A reputed mummy of John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation...