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Sirs: Anent babies born kings, of whom you mentioned (TIME, Jan. 19) Alfonso XIII, and learned reader Noss recalled (TIME, Feb. 9) Sassanid Shapur II (310-379 A. D.): add a third, more amazing than the others, the son of Alexander the Great. There is no need to remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus...
King-Born Shapur...
...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...
...coronation ceremony began, Shapur (Crown Prince) Mehenien Reza Pahlavi, a stocky child who has been granted a civil list of $2,000,000 a year, entered the throne room and walked with dignity to a stance at the right of the throne...