Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RANEE OF SARAWAK...
Divorced. Blonde Valerie Brooke Gregory ("Princess Baba"), 24, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak; by Wrestler Bob Gregory, 28, onetime claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can title; after three married years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: "She is always somewhere else...
Last month H. H. Lady Sylvia, the 56-year-old white Ranee of Sarawak, arriving in Canada, appalled her native Britain by denouncing its child evacuees as "young riffraff of England." Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee...
...World War I, announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...
Last week Raja Sir Charles issued a decree from his palace in Kuching, Sarawak's capital, blackballed Anthony Brooke as his heir with this terse announcement: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office...