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Died. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 65, son-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, father of Queen Frederika of Greece and head of the House of Hanover; of a liver ailment; at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany...
...parade, Buick tricked up is convertible with a new body, the Skylark; Cadillac brought out its El Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...
Grace Vanderbilt's most potent social weapon was the cultivation of European royalty, a technique which earned her the nickname "Kingfisher." Her first great coup occurred in 1902, when by request of Kaiser Wilhelm II she was hostess to Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant...
Chefoo to Cheesecloth. Thornton was certainly different. Whatever school he attended-the Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
...Church. He shears away the last of her temporal power, sells the treasures of the Vatican. He smashes the power of the Jesuits. He reorganizes the Church in England. He raises up a score of vigorous young cardinals. He issues brilliant epistles. He strikes up a close friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II. He deals mighty blows of policy against the revolutionaries who have taken over France and Russia. At last he is called as supreme arbitrator over a world conference. By his decree, France and Russia are destroyed, and the world is divided between Germany, Italy, Japan, England...