Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patiño. a cholo (half-Indian) from Cochabamba, parlayed an abandoned Bolivian tin mine into a fortune estimated at a cool $1 billion. His annual income used to surpass the government's. He formed a world cartel, bought heavily into Malayan tin, and lived abroad like an emperor, marrying his son Antenor to a niece of Spain's Alfonso XIII, his daughters to a French count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid...
...Nippon Times carried the first post-marriage interview with Princess Yori, daughter of Emperor Hirohito. The princess, recently married to a commoner whose business is farming, reported that she gets up at 6:30 in the morning to help her husband care for their 300 canaries, 50 dogs, nine cows, 40 pigs, nine goats and 1,000 chickens. As for the eggs, they are bringing premium prices in Tokyo. Reason: merchants plainly mark them as products from the princess' chickens...
...Dramatic Club is presently engaged in producing "The Emperor Jones," which will be given free of charge in Sanders Theatre next week...
...Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus of mermaids among $400,000 worth of underwater caves, fish netting, giant shells, ship spars and Technicolored jetsam. Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser has written eight catchy songs, among them three based on Andersen tales, Little Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling...
Married. Archduke Felix of Habsburg, 36, third son of Emperor Charles I and Empress Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...