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...Paris gown and a bridal veil that had once belonged to the Empress Maria Theresa, 26-year-old Princess Regina of Saxe -Meiningen - Hildburghausen walked slowly up the aisle under an arch of crossed swords, to take her place beside pale, 38-year-old Franz Joseph Otto Robert Marie Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded...
Next day. pale, tight-lipped Prime Minister Clement Attlee said: "There has been a prohibition of all major strategic materials." British shipments to Red China, he insisted, had not included "warships, aircraft or anything of that sort . . ." They did include "bicycles, perambulators ... wire mattresses, nails, tacks, rivets, manhole covers . . ." But he admitted there was no absolute embargo on rubber exports, only a restriction which held shipments to 1948-49 level. And that restriction went into force only 13 days before Chinese troops poured into battle against the gallant Gloucesters...
Along the stretch of road leading from the Hungarian border post of Rajka to the Austrian frontier station at Nickelsdorf walked a man carrying a suitcase and a traveling bag. He was pale, with deep shadows under his eyes; every few moments, he paused to catch his breath. An official U.S. car drove up, and out jumped a U.S. diplomat. "How are you, Bob?" cried Hal Ekern of the U.S. High Commissioner's staff in Austria. "Let's go, let's get out of here...
Gramercy Ghost (by John Cecil Holm; produced by Roger Clark in association with Evans M. Frankel) is a pale little fantasy trying hard to be a farce. In inheriting a house in Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park, a young lady (agreeably played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) also acquires the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier. She already has two living beaux, but the ghost falls in love with her, too; since only she can see and hear him, she is first thought to be drunk and then demented...
Meanwhile, faces were pale in Widener as seniors approached the deadline for their theses. House superintendents and Union food lists indicated that the usual large number of students didn't go home for vacation...