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...Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians out again and put Haile Selassie back on the throne...
Anna Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...
...realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked as the emperor in the fable of the "Emperor's New Clothes," stripped down to essence, strutting and stupid under their satins...
...Roman Emperor (245-313 A.D.) who issued an edict fixing prices of such things as cereals, wines, meat, fruits, vegetables, leather, timber, carpets and clothing. Punishment for overcharging: death or deportation. Fate of Diocletian's program: utter failure...
Author Wilson is a tubby, New Jersey-born Cape Codder who looks like a cross between a cantankerous professor and an absent-minded Roman emperor. At 55, with more than a quarter-century of serious writing behind him, he is best known to U.S. readers for Memoirs of Hecate County, a book of turgid intellectual short stories laced with enough sex to get them widely banned. Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what...