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Golden Boy. The lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 155 Ibs.), blond-mustached 23-year-old took over the Examiner on March 4, 1887. He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken...
...sovereign, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, did what he could to make amends and restore harmony among his people. Before a distinguished group of 250 in the Royal Palace's white-and-gold throne room in Brussels, the stern, still handsome and young-looking (at 50) monarch relinquished his right to reign to his 2O-year-old son Baudouin. "It is with pride," Leopold told the boy, "that I transmit to you the noble and heavy mission of henceforth bearing the crown * of a Belgium which has remained, despite the most terrible of wars...free and faithful...
Feisal II, * 16, King of Iraq, already safe on his strawberry-colored throne in Bagdad. He has been twelve years a monarch (but not yet a ruler; Iraq is governed in Feisal's name by 38-year-old Regent Abdul Illah, the boy King's crafty, effeminate uncle). Weaned on a well-balanced formula of British manners and Arab morals (an English governess taught him etiquette in the mornings; Queen Mother Aliyah read Islamic literature in the evenings), swarthy Feisal grew up a toytown prince, boxed in by such old-fashioned playthings as a 3-ft.-long General...
While Middle-East tensions were erupting in a blast of gunfire (see FOREIGN NEWS), honeymooning King Farouk of Egypt dealt firmly with a tense situation of his own. In Lugano, Switzerland, a photographer snapped his picture. When the pudgy monarch protested, local policemen seized the film. Higher-ranking police, who later ordered the film returned, explained: "Switzerland is a free country." Said Farouk: "I will never return to Switzerland again." Then he and his entourage of 50 flounced off to Italy...
...Style. Sickert himself kept on bubbling until the age of 82. At 72 he caused a sensation by exhibiting a portrait of George V painted from a photograph of the king in bowler and overcoat, pointing up the resemblance of the monarch to his bearded horse-trainer. At 74 he was made a Royal Academician, huffily resigned the following year because other Academy members failed to come to the defense of controversial Sculptor Jacob Epstein. In his last years, he changed his signature (from Walter to his middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard...