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Died. Catherine Rzewuska Kolb-Danvin, 83, onetime Princess Radziwill; in Manhattan. Daughter of a Tsarist Army officer, she married Prince Adam Charles Radziwill, before his death was secretary to the German Empress Frederick. In the U.S. she became a prolific and much-disputed writer, drew the wrath and denials of the Soviet Embassy in 1938 when she wrote in Liberty an "interview" with Joseph Stalin hinting at a Russian-German alliance...
...tuned as carefully as he could. Next he caught the ship's call signal: GFSB. This was the Empress of Australia, a pretty big prize. The uncertain staccato chatter continued: Torpedoed. . . . Now down by bow. All lifeboats over to port. . . . Deck awash. At 10:53 p.m.: Being shelled again. Lat. 15:30 N. Long...
...Empress of Australia were sunk, this was big news, and U. S. editors slapped it on the front page. But within nine hours after the messages had been received the British denied that the Empress was sunk. She was safely in port. This turned the affair from tragedy to mystery. Nearest neutral port into which the Empress could have put from the position given was Freetown, over 600 miles away. At full speed it would have taken the Empress at least 24 hours to get there; yet the British Government declared her in port nine hours after the incident...
...Capital, mounted on a white horse, just as Badoglio did. I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its place will reinstate the white marble statue of the Lion of Judah." In London, his roly-poly, good-natured Empress Waizeru Menen collected her daughters, packed her crown jewels for the big entry, climbed aboard a crowded troop train, and disappeared in the direction of Africa...
...stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there are minor themes, characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father...