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Last week, in the worst crisis to over take his realm since 1871, the prestige and power of handsome, autocratic Prince Rainier lay under eclipse. With Monaco's solvency teetering in the balance, Rainier's National Council stepped in, began a searching investigation. First move: to persuade French police to arrest Banker Liambey in his villa at nearby Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat...
Touring her realm's hinterland, Greece's vivacious Queen Frederika, in a sporty getup, was in gay spirits at a festival in her honor in an Epirus village, won smiles and applause from the townsfolk as she stepped adroitly through the paces of a folk dance, relaxed folksily afterwards...
...orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every...
...that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...
...Congo is King Baudouin's richest, widest realm. It is eighty times the size of the mother country, and half again as populous. Booming Congo exports provide the dollars and pounds that make the Belgian franc one of the world's hardest currencies. Belgians drink Congo coffee, wear shirts made of Congo cotton, wash them with soap made from Congo palm kernels. Without the mighty Congo, little Belgium might go broke; with it, a nation of 9,000,000 still counts as a world empire...