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...firm announced that its September list will include a "tender, searching" volume titled Love Poems. The poetess: Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, 31, whose first published work follows her renown as amateur artist, professional actress (The Time of Your Life-TIME, Jan. 31), and the estranged wife of mellowing (73) Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Explaining the poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria herself offered...
ANALYZE YOURSELF (320 pp.]-Prince Leopold Loewensteln & William Gerhard!-Hawthorn Books...
...advance to be much impressed by their young king. "That infant," snapped one sun-helmeted businessman as he watched Baudouin's arrival in a Sabena DC-6 airliner. The colonists had seen too many prim, unsmiling photographs of the bespectacled King, watchfully flanked by his father, ex-King Leopold, and his purposeful stepmother. But a change seemed to have come over shy King Baudouin the moment he left Brussels. He became relaxed, friendly and informal-a man on his own. On the plane, he insisted on getting himself sprayed with "baptismal" water with the rest when the plane crossed...
Austria's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl had gone out of his way to say that Austrian independence was "particularly due to American help." When Molotov arrived from Warsaw (see above), all grinny with benevolence, Figl greeted him at the airport with a good-natured but double-edged reference to Austria's ten years of occupation. "Now you come as a real liberator," Figl told Molotov...
...Novelist Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine into the heart of darkness." There was plenty of darkness in the Congo during the igth century "scramble for Africa," when Baudoin's great-granduncle, Leopold II staked out his monarchical claim to the uncharted Congo Free State. Leopold's rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt...