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Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall has an improbable hobby for the head of a boarding school for young children: fireworks. He also goes in for fireworks in a literary way with court-scandal biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall...
...Died. Empress Wolzero Menen of Ethiopia, 71, wife of Emperor Selassie, an amiable, portly matriarch who confined her interests largely to church (Coptic) and children (three) but once freed her husband from imprisonment by crashing down Abyssinia's Royal Palace gates with a whippet tank; after a long illness; in Addis Ababa...
Pacific and round the world. The American President Lines' President Roosevelt, newly converted to an all-first-class cruise ship, made her maiden voyage (from San Francisco to Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila and Kobe) last month. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Canada, on the Caribbean and Mediterranean routes, is another recent and successful addition to the cruise fleet. The Home Lines is building an unnamed 34,000-ton "Ship of Tomorrow" that will be ready in 1963 for summer and fall transatlantic service from Montreal and for winter-spring operation from New York to the Caribbean. Grace...
Holton plans to study unpublished and little known works of the seventeenth century astronomer and physicist Johannes Kepler. Housed in the archives of the University of Leningrad, the manuscripts were bought by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, during...
...royal family's third-string Kensington Palace has seldom made news since the Duchess of Kent had a daughter there in 1819-and even then no one suspected that the gel would one day be Queen of England and Empress of India. Last week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants...