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Married. Maria Pia, 20, daughter of Italy's exiled King Umberto, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy; and Prince Alexander, 30, shipping executive and son of Yugoslavia's onetime Prince Regent Paul; in the village of Cascais, Portugal...
...predatory men" was un-English. Bus drivers themselves met the crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...
...Modest Pamphlet. Shoriki has been fulfilling such great expectations ever since he abruptly cut short his career as deputy police chief in Tokyo in 1924 after an assassin almost succeeded in killing the pVince regent (now Emperor). Says Shoriki, who was held responsible for the inadequate guard: "Instead of committing harakiri, I bought a newspaper." With borrowed money he purchased tiny (circ. 40,000), struggling Yomiuri, which means "reading for sale." cashed in on his police experience by getting the most sensational crime coverage in Tokyo. He added a pioneering radio section and the comics. In four years Yomiuri...
Border Incident. In Nebraska, campaigning for regent of the state university, Don Pierce put in a busy day tacking up posters, at nightfall found himself two miles inside Wyoming...
Inside the palace as Regent, Pridi worked closely and dangerously with American OSS agents; he earned the wartime regard of U.S. Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. For five months in 1946, Pridi was Thailand's Premier. Forced into exile 15 months later, Pridi left Bangkok in a motor launch borrowed from a good friend in the U.S. embassy. But on arrival in Singapore, Pridi mysteriously disappeared; nothing was seen or heard of him for the next seven years...