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...Coronation problem too tough for the Duke of Norfolk's Court of Claims to solve had to be referred for decision by King George. The problem: since the Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Lord Ancaster, has the undoubted right to receive "His Majesty's night robe" in which the King sleeps the night before the Coronation, what is to be done in view of the fact that King George VI sleeps in pajamas? This baffled the Court of Claims, should not baffle His Majesty. Friends of King George were confident he will decide that Lord Ancaster...
Donna Elsa stopped writing, content to help order Respighi's career. She stood proudly by when, in 1932, he put on his academic robe and became a member of Italy's Royal Academy (see cut). On their four U. S. tours she sang little beside his songs. In "The Pines," their villa high on the outskirts of Rome, she was first to sing his new compositions. Now she will write again to raise money for a music foundation in Respighi's memory...
Unquestionably cashhe kidnappee must lead China into an immediate war with Japan (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.)arrive in ostentatious military regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China...
...VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges and members of the Norwich Corporation, all in full robes, as the Town Crier intoned, "Make way! Make way for God's and the King's Judge! Make way!" Sir John Hawke was in scarlet robe with imposing ermine collar and full powdered wig, the conventional embodiment of British Jus tice. He said a loud prayer for wisdom...
...Alone in robe and slippers in a corner of his Attic sits the Vagabond. But for the single ray that falls from the shaded lamp over his left shoulder, to the book in the Vagabond's lap, the Attic is in darkness. Across the quadrangle a silly radio bleats out a strain of jazz. The Vagabond reads for a moment, then gets up and shuts the window toward the quadrangle. The radio's voice is still. The Vagabond smiles. He knows a trick or two that'll baffle modern science. He reads...