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...Valentine, legendary perpetrator of the universal love-your-lover-day, might have found it was more trouble than it was worth as far as he was concerned, too. Under Emperor Claudius in the third century A.D., young men in the army were forbidden to marry since it sapped their strength. St. Val began marrying couples in secret, for which Claudius had him whipped and imprisoned. That's when the Saint began sending cards to his friends on every anniversary of his imprisonment...
...They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed the island to Napoleon. The English, who soon captured it from...
Died. Archduke Maximilian Eugene von Hohenberg of Habsburg, 56, younger brother of Charles Francis Joseph, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary; of a heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo -the spark that touched off World War I -Maximilian took command of an Austrian infantry battalion, won decorations for valor in fighting the Italians. After the Armistice, he was mostly in flight, in exile, or in the Nazis' "protective custody," ended up a forgotten anachronism living under the alias...
...Groucho's chief stock in trade. During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals: fraudulent attorney, flimflamming explorer, dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about the disdain he felt...
Native social customs, which are observed at Fletcher, add to the color of life in Wilson House. All the Japanese, for instance, pay particular respects and courtesy to one of their countrymen because he is a cousin of the Emperor...