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When the sacred white silk maternity belt was reverently wound around the person of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nogako a month ago, all Japan renewed the nation's years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child...
...Brown Empress Sirs...
...When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...only one. Taking it like a man, he goes off to watch the French army get its knockout at Sedan. He arrives the night before the battle, just as the German lines are closing in, is summoned by the Emperor and given an important missive to the Empress in Paris. After the battle he gets through the German lines, helps rescue the Empress from a mob at the Tuileries and gets her safely to England. Day before the Germans bottle up Paris, back comes Jonathan. He survives the siege and is still wandering around looking things over when the Communists...
...sighed the courageous Queen-Empress, "I have often heard of a bull in a china shop, but I have never seen one there before...