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...prince, who is a director of Fokker Aircraft Co. and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, denied having received any Lockheed bribes; the Dutch Cabinet hastily appointed a special commission to investigate. Should the charges against Bernhard be proved true, his wife may be forced to abdicate as Queen???rocking the Dutch nation, where the monarchy is extremely popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: THE BIG PAYOFF | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...EGYPTIAN CROSS MYSTERY?Ellery Queen???Stokes ($2). One headless corpse after another leads gorily and with breathless speed from West Virginia mountains to Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN???Anthony Abbott?Covici, Friede ($2). Though Thatcher Colt alone smells murder on the flying rings under Madison Square's big top, the D. A. makes no protest, even when a pact is made with the old Ubangi witch doctor. Dark basement scenes?throat slitting?and a few nice weapons for the crime museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...FOURTH QUEEN???Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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