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...souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built...
...keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
Married, The Infante Don Jose of Bavaria-Bourbon, nephew of Alfonso XIII, onetime King of Spain; and Marisol Maria de Lesseps, granddaughter of the late Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, projector-builder of the Suez Canal, grandniece of the late famed Empress Eugénie; in Urrugne, France...
...Disapprovingly at a furniture exposition in London last week the King-Emperor pointed out to the Queen-Empress a modern bedside reading lamp...
...Worthing was indignant. "How about the Tunneys? How about the Lindberghs? How about the Empress of Japan?" The editor was unmoved. To the advertising department marched Mr. Worthing. Next day the Chronicle carried the following paid item...