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...International Newsreel Corp., a rebuke for supplying TIME with a photograph of the late Empress Alexandra labeled "Maria Feodorovna Russian Czarina B 8146." To an erring TIME subeditor, a thoroughgoing reprimand for not discovering that Dr. Adolf Koester was appointed German Minister to Latvia...
...discreetly either. I wonder if you spotted in that same issue-Foreign column-another error. There is a long article on Maria Feodorovna-nee of Denmark and it goes on to say 'whom you see here' and the accompanying picture is of the murdered Empress Alexandra of Russia." H. G. ADDISON...
...Majesty's mother, Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was a large, blocky woman of tremendous, athletic vitality, and of a personal magnetism so great that she was sometimes called "the most popular princess of her time." The present Queen and Empress forged her own naturally retiring and bashful disposition in the heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial...
...Imperial physicians came in a body to the Empress Sadako, now the Dowager Empress. They besought her for authority to employ this forbidden remedy upon the sacred person of His Majesty. Enlightened, courageous, the Empress Sadako took upon herself the heavy responsibility of authorizing for the first time a procedure hitherto regarded by Japanese in the nature of a sacrilege. Happily, success crowned the undertaking...
...that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were...