Word: napoleonism
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Empress Eugenie's jewelry-some she wore at Napoleon Ill's court-was among 50 feminine fancies carried off by a thief who burglarized the Louvre. Sniffed the conservator in charge of the Louvre's national treasures: the culprit's choices betrayed "very doubtful taste...
...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...
...major-leaguers who fell for the bait of outsize, tax-free Mexican salaries were Latins who did not look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants' Napoleon Reyes and Danny Gardella, the Athletics' Roberto Estalella, the White Sox' Alejandro Carrasquel, the Dodgers' Luis Olmo...
...Edward Napoleon Claughton has another Napoleonic railroad plan. Claughton, holder of one of the largest single blocks of stock in the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy"), came a cropper with his first plan to control Katy's board of directors (TIME, April 23). He lost out to Katy President Matthew Scott Sloan,* who died a month later. Into his job went a friend of Claughton's, softspoken, malleable Raymond John ("Mike") Morfa, onetime assistant to Allegheny Corp.'s Robert Ralph Young...
...Comrade Napoleon...