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...Maman v. the Aunts. The problem was a curious mixture of religion and nationality. The orphaned Finaly boys were taken in by Mile. Antoinette Brun, a goodhearted woman, active in Catholic church circles, who ran the Grenoble foundling home. She grew to love them as the "most abandoned" of all her charges. In 1945, she took the first legal steps toward adopting them. Three years later, she had them baptized as Catholics...
...sickly in mien as he is diffident in manner, Baudouin as a child never had much fun until the Princess de Réthy became his maman. She was young* and frolicsome, with what one admirer called "the complexion of a rose and the shape of Venus." Baudouin adored his vivacious stepmother and, according to the gossips, is still strongly influenced by her. She got blamed for Baudouin's rude refusal to attend the funeral of Britain's George...
...Happy Time (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is the time of growing up for twelve-year-old Bibi Bonnard (Bobby Driscoll) in the Ottawa of the '20s. The picturesque Bonnard family, headed by a kind, understanding papa (Charles Boyer) and strait-laced maman (Marsha Hunt), includes lovable, lecherous old grand-père (Marcel Dalio), who chases after widows, Uncle Louis (Kurt Kasznar), who drinks vast quantities of white wine from a water cooler, and Uncle Desmonde (Louis Jourdan), a traveling salesman who collects ladies' garters...
...rare visitors to Laeken described a day last December when Baudouin arrived late for a luncheon which his frowning father had already held up for 15 minutes. The prince rushed into the room in his general's uniform and drew himself stiffly to attention. "Dear Papa, dear maman" he burst out, "I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't help it. I had to stop to receive Acheson, Bevin and Schuman." The King nodded gravely, excused the boy and waved him to his seat...
Leopold's household includes the three children of Astrid-Princess Josephine-Charlotte, 21, Crown Prince Baudouin, 18, Prince Albert, 15-and Mary Liliane's son, Alexandre, 7. It is an affectionate family circle. To the stepchildren, Mary Liliane is a gay, smiling maman...