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...flaxen-haired, Swedish-born Princess Ann Mari Bismarck and her complacent husband, Prince Otto, had enthralled Rome with their lavish entertainments. Otto had an unlimited allowance from the German Embassy and instructions to let the Princess go her calculated way. Ann Mari's grande affaire with Ciano's Chief of Cabinet, ardent Filippo Anfuso, had more than repaid Berlin...
This year, after 385 years of thinking it over, the Church of England decided to do something about the Table. Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...
Divorced. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema bad man already engaged to his current leading lady, Lauren ("The Look") Bacall; by his third wife, onetime Cine mactress Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot Bo gart ; after nearly seven years in the mari tal ring; in Las Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic...
These, and 53 other folksy, jokesy short stories, essays, articles and poems by authors of the Midwest and Southwest (Jesse Stuart, Eudora Wel.ty, Frank Luther Mott, Mari Sandoz, Albert Halper, August Derleth, et al.), make up Prairie Schooner Caravan, an anthology culled from the University of Nebraska's 17-year-old quarterly, Prairie Schooner ("talent scout of the midlands...
...MARI SANDOZ...