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Prince Sahle Selassie (see cut), third son of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World...
Carol and his Magda, still exiling in Brazil, made a rare public appearance to goggle at royalty. The high-styled Braganzas, descendants of Brazil's second and last Emperor Dom Pedro II, were staging a circus. Dom João tamed lions, Princess Tereza played an Amazon, a couple of other princesses rode bareback. (The Brazilian Air Minister's nephew tried riding an elephant, but fell off and sprained his elbow.) Dom Pedro Henrique, the Pretender himself, boycotted the show: he was squabbling with the family over money matters...
...G.I.s, the few paintings of Japanese defeat seemed absurdly dignified. Renzo Kita's Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi showed the Admiral among his officers on the flaming flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hiryo, preparing with a tight smile to toast the Emperor in sake...
...astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...
...Anna. The Emperor had ruled out ex-WAVES, WACs and officers' wives. He also wanted no zealous young reformers, preferred "a mature person of 50 years or more." But Stoddard told him: "Many good teachers in the U.S. are much less old than that." Brunette, fortyish Mrs. Vining, already tired of newspaper comparisons to Anna and the King of Siam, says she is "considerably older than Anna was [28], but younger than the Emperor had in mind...