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...study of the good and the bad in women," Ambrose Bierce once remarked, "two women are a needless expense." Not always. In these new biographies of women of importance, one a Chinese empress and the other a Russian princess, some notable virtues and vices of the sex are acutely dramatized by contrast...
...minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service of 952 pieces in what was Wedgwood's largest commission...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ann Blyth stars as a Chinese empress stranded in Panama in the 1850s and pursued by a general who wants to kill her son. Color...
Although they sent home a fortune in furs, the colonists were repaid largely with official indifference and hostility. "It is for traders to traffic where they please," pronounced the Empress Catherine. "I will furnish no men, ships, or money." Not until 1810, nearly 70 years after Russian eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager...
...language of modern art, they are simply too few to justify TIME'S addressing them on 3,800,000-plus covers. Furthermore, the validity of the interpretation of these cognoscenti will be in doubt for at least another ten years, by which time Jeanne Moreau will be playing Empress de Gaulle and will deserve a different analysis...