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Unlike her two younger sisters, she developed some unusually serious tastes. All she wanted for Christmas at eleven was a membership in the Royal Society of Ornithology. From her maternal grandfather, King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, she acquired a love for archaeology, and her royal father's subjects were treated to a succession of press photographs of a dirty-faced young princess earnestly grubbing about on all fours in some muddy excavation. In 1953 the people of Denmark overwhelmingly voted to change the law that, since the first Margrethe, has kept females from the throne...
Died. Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, 69, last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who got bounced from army ranks (he was a major general) in 1940 when Hitler slapped down on old royalty; of cancer; in Munich...
With such help, plus the advantage of one of the fastest aircraft now flying, Lieut. Gustav B. Klatt, 29, set a new 2,419-mile west-to-east record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec., landed at New Jersey's McGuire A.F.B. Captain Robert M. Sweet, 30, flying nonstop round trip (4,838 miles), broke the east-to-west record (despite 40-to-150-m.p.h. head winds) in 3 hr. 34 min. 8.8 sec. When he blinked past his home base, Sweet clocked a round-trip record-6 hr. 42 min. 6.7 sec.-averaging 721.9 m.p.h...
...more than 70, has found an unlikely new musical home, and though he has never quite stepped out of the limelight, is experiencing another renaissance. Stokie's Houston Symphony concerts are sold 98% in advance, and he has produced first-rate new recordings in The Orchestra and Gustav Holst's The Planets...
...greatest defectors, Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung, had left him long before, along with Wilhelm Stekel. In the 19203 they were followed by Otto Rank (who proved to be suffering from manic-depressive psychosis that had gone unsuspected in the inner circle of analysts), by Wilhelm Reich, and finally by the fawning Ferenczi, whose lifelong emotional troubles were compounded at the end by pernicious anemia and organic brain damage. Through it all, Freud held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late...