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Because a Brussels, Belgium, golfer named King Leopold III once gave U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies a lesson in chip-shots, and a trimming (Davies, 85, Leopold, 69), last week grateful Mr. Davies made the King an honorary member of Washington's swank Burning Tree Golf Club...
Divorced. Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), 53, bespectacled, bulb-nosed comedian; by Frieda Louise Mierse Wynn...
...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...Netherlands first because Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...Telegraph explained, when suspicions of German intentions seemed confirmed by reports of troop concentrations, King Leopold summoned his ministers to determine the country's atti tude. Guided by "the views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin...