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This week the Pretender will get back to Estoril just in time to celebrate his 49th birthday. A few days later, there will come a flood of guests-friends, political supporters, monarchists of any ilk-for 31 the formal celebration of the feast day of his patron saint, San Juan Bautista. Every year the ritual is the same. As the visitors enter Villa Giralda's big, comfortable drawing room, they press toward Don Juan and his wife to bow or curtsy. They greet the man who may one day be their ruler...
...army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet Sadoveanu sometimes had the writing skill to make compelling even quite traditional reactions to old-fashioned war: soldiers' delight in a battlefront feast on stolen turkey; a young sergeant's awe at the presence of a beautiful woman in the convalescent hospital; the guilty confusion of victorious troopers who, seeking vengeance among new-taken prisoners, find not the bloodthirsty enemy they hate but an abject lot of human animals who can only...
...Lord of Misrule has proclaimed the onset of midsummer madness at Eliot House, and a lovelier holiday feast-time never was. The great hall is filled with music, fustian, courtiers on carpet consideration, ladies with damask cheeks, and a fool in motley. This is a fine matter indeed for a May evening...
...week's end, the year's biggest business story dominated the nation's front pages with commendable, if confusing, thoroughness. But to readers from coast to coast, the sudden feast after so many weeks of famine raised a perplexing question: If the news from Wall Street was all that important, why hadn't their paper told them about it before...
With insatiable appetite, Newspaper Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, has already bolted down 14 dailies, is in the process of swallowing three more (the Denver Post and the Springfield. Mass., Union and News). And Sam is still hungry. Last week he began to spread the table for his biggest feast yet. On the menu: the New Orleans morning Times-Picayune (circ. 191,751) and its evening companion, the States-Item...