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...says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order of Leopold. She was also made an honorary citizen of Frankfurt in times when that distinction was more highly regarded than at present. A long list of honorary degrees from American colleges completes the roster...
...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...When Mitropoulos goes to Manhattan to share the conducting of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony with Leopold Stokowski...
...early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself as "the rose of Brabant," but of whom her uncle remarked: "Poor Rudolph! His bride has the daintiness of a dragoon...
...Spaak was wrong. The death penalty was never legally abolished in Belgium, but from 1865 to 1909 King Leopold II automatically commuted all death sentences...