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Playboy Prince. Umberto's kingly education was a gaudy business. As a playboy princeling, he had some un-engaging ways: he was known to spit on the floors of houses where he was guest, grind his heels into priceless tables, organize treasure-hunt games and insist that every prize be a princely bauble. In Rome in 1930 he married Marie-José, only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert. Umberto's subsequent infidelities were on a royal scale. Marie-José wept, but did not go home...
...Tough Grind. In Hollywood, Stripteaser Betty Rowland bumped one of her swivel-hips against a wall, landed in the hospital suffering partial paralysis...
...said the flutist, 'the teeth of my present bridge are too long and they have nasty spaces . . . between them. I have no support for the mouthpiece . . . and the air flows right out between the necks of the teeth. Now, doctor, can you close up these spaces . . . and grind out some sort of shelf . . . to accommodate the neck of the flute...
...Grind Begins. Next day Franklin Roosevelt got a quick fill-in from his Democratic leaders in Congress. Presumably they told him of the series of defeats the Administration had suffered, of Congress' angry mood, of the almost secessionist temper of Southern Democrats (TIME, Dec. 20). Now he knew he was back in Washington...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...