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...guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...
...Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.* The Specter begins with Samghim feebly awakened by an interest in a bold, mysterious client, Marina Zotova, who is mixed up in some shady negotiations over the sale of property in the Urals. But soon after they meet in Paris she is murdered, and suspicion of him in his home town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies...
...fact that the bride is German pleased truculent Greek Dictator General John Metaxas, an outspoken admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs...
President de Aguirre admitted the fall of Zamudio and Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud...