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...personal happiness, the destruction of both during his struggle with the boyars (nobles) who murdered his wife and drove him to abdication, and the restoration of his power by the will of the people. Part 2 tells how the boyars plotted to assassinate the reestablished sovereign, how he discov ered the scheme and broke the power of the nobility with a bloody purge...
...Biologists, interested in the tiny marine organisms called ascidians, heard good news from Tokyo: this summer Emperor Hirohito will publish his second book on marine life, Ascidians of Sagami Bay, the result of four years' research and 20 years of specimen collecting in which he discov ered 21 new species. His first book. Opisthobranchia of Sagami, published four years ago, was a bestseller among marine biologists...
...service. Some time after Abdul Mejid died, the Russian ambassador at Constantinople used his friendship with the Queen Mother to get Midhat recalled from the Balkans. Midhat squared himself with the new Sultan, Abdul Aziz, and was soon appointed Grand Vizier of the Empire. From this lofty eminence he discov. ered that the Sultan was growing rich, at his country's expense, on bribes from a wealthy Austrian railroad man. Midhat appealed to the Sultan's conscience. The Sultan returned the bribes and sulkily fired Midhat. Soon afterwards, in 1876, Abdul Aziz was deposed by his nephew Murad...
...Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...
Hailed as the No. i male cinema discov ery of 1938 for his performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...