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Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince 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...
...Shaw and other literary lights, e.g., Barrie, Maugham. Shaw's later letters to him are scrappy business notes mildly intriguing as a penny-pinching portrait of Shaw guarding his royalties as if he were a branch Bank of England. Golding Bright died in 1941, after some years of renown as a silver-haired dandy who showed up at London first nights in a swirling black cape, with a gold-knobbed stick, and regularly dozed through the play. Nonetheless, he could give uncannily accurate estimates of how long a play would run, suggesting that at least some of Shaw...
...Sultan might prove more tractable than nationalist hotheads, the Faure government last, week appointed one of France's most popular career officials as new Resident General in Morocco. He is André Louis Dubois, 52, a pianoplaying, party-loving man who as chief of the Paris police won renown as "the prefect of silence" because he had managed to still the sounds of horn-blowing by Paris' ill-tempered motorists. In his new assignment, Dubois (who was born in Algeria) may find it necessary to fight ruder noises. Last week, on the eve of the Sultan...
Stevens, said Wilson Jainsen, president of the company, "was renowned as a specialist in surety-bond work." Besides surety bonds, Wallace Stevens had another speciality that brought him worldwide renown. He was one of the finest poets of of a generation whose special need for poetry Wallace Stevens well understood...
...Manhattan publishing firm announced that its September list will include a "tender, searching" volume titled Love Poems. The poetess: Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, 31, whose first published work follows her renown as amateur artist, professional actress (The Time of Your Life-TIME, Jan. 31), and the estranged wife of mellowing (73) Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Explaining the poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria...