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Main event of the Nizam's first trip "outside" in 16 years: a meeting with a few fellow princes and potentates for two days of reflection on the sad state of highnesses now that India is a republic. The good old regal powers were all gone; now they had nothing left but money-and the Nizam had most of that...
...Elizabeth is not likely to match the tremendous personal success scored by her mother on her 1939 U.S. visit. In contrast to the radiant Queen, who often broke royal routine to comfort a weeping child or to chat spiritedly with onlookers, Elizabeth's manner has been more cautiously regal. In the ceremonies, Canadians found her a charming and perfectly trained heiress presumptive. But on the human side, Elizabeth is still a shy girl of 25, self-conscious and tense on her first major public appearance abroad without the overshadowing presence of her parents...
Coley decided to continue as vice-president of the Regal Distributing Co. and gave up his position at Alabama after he was informed that the administration held it "would be detrimental to the University to have on the faculty anyone who had a direct interest in an alcoholic beverage business...
...Royal Typewriter Co., world's biggest producer of typewriters, no name is more regal than Ryan. The company was founded 47 years ago by Thomas Fortune Ryan, a tycoon who controlled a billion-dollar empire of banks, railroads, insurance, mines, utilities, tobacco, etc. His grandson Allan A. Jr. is now chairman of the board. Last week Allan's younger brother, Fortune Peter Ryan, who inherited $3,300,000 from his grandfather,* stepped into the Royal presidency...
Song of the River. His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire. He was buried last week as he liked to live, in a blaze of regal pomp. The governor was there, the mayor, notables of publishing, screen, stage and public affairs. A movie-studio publicist shepherded the press. Flashbulbs blinked, newsreel cameras whirred. Somewhere in the crowd of 1,500, a woman fainted...