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...better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow." Count Leo Tolstoi, venerable, charming son of the famed novelist, came on the De Grasse with two objects...
King Haakon VII was born on August 3, 1872. On July 22, 1896, he married Princess Maud, third daughter of the then Prince Edward of Wales. They have a son and heir in the popular Prince Olav, who will attain his twentieth birthday on July...