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...Khedive of Egypt himself, squat, fat and bearded, came personally to Paris to call on Emperor Napoleon III and to invite the Empress to the party; Eugénie was pleased to accept. It was a great moment for both their nations. After ten years of crises, discouragements and setbacks, France's and Egypt's money had finally driven the canal through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together...
Author Bolitho's reason for doing more amply what Strachey has already done more economically is the emergence of fresh material-among others, hitherto unpublished letters from Prince Consort Albert to his German tutor, letters from the Queen to her daughter the Empress of Germany, tappings from such virgin sources as the late Queen Marie of Rumania, certain aged members of Victoria's court and the 19th Century files of the Hartford (Conn.) Times and Courant. Hardly enough to justify a new and inferior biography...
Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...
Robbed: Hirohito & family. Somebody got into the palace grounds and made away with 15 white Leghorns that had been protégées of the Empress herself...
Widow's Mite. As the dowager empress of tin, Albina will not have as easy a time as her ruthless husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman...