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...Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm promptly proposed the German Duke of Urach as a suitable...
Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...
...first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words a day. But U.S.-naturalized Novelist Masters has paused in his fiction labors to write a memoir of his youth. Not surprisingly, it turns out to be about his service in India as an infantry officer in a Gurkha regiment...
...addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia of Hemingway...
...left Temple's protection only to learn that pride is a luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this as an instrument to torment others. He wrote of himself: "Each line shall stab, shall blast, like daggers and like fire." Early, he knew himself. "My mind," he wrote, "was like a conjured spirit...