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...Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect golfer...
Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
...canals in Brussels. Stroking his handlebar mustache, the bartender explained how the King became bitter. "There Leopold was-a young, handsome, dashing fellow anxious to make a splash in the world the way the Prince of Wales was doing over in England. What happened? His father was Albert, le roi chevalier, and his popularity put the boy completely in the shade. Then Leopold got married, and his bride turned out to be Astrid, one of the prettiest princesses you ever saw. She used to wheel her babies right through the park, sit down with the other mothers and talk diapers...
...race, he often stopped trying. "If the owner wants me to place, I try, but I don't like to ride a horse into the ground for nothing." English fans nicknamed him "brigand"; in France, he is called voleur (thief) more often than le roi des jockeys...
...Vive le Roi...