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...impossibility of accepting defeat, the Arab leaders will have to teach them to accept the inevitable postwar concessions if they hope to survive negotiations. And negotiations must come, no matter how long the Arabs drag their feet. King Hussein runs a very real danger to his own person and throne for his efforts, but in the long run he is bound to help the Arab cause by raising a voice of comparative reason and moderation at a time when Arabia needs it more than ever before...
That was all, but it marked the first time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
Married. Princess Margrethe of Denmark, 27, eldest daughter of Denmark's King Frederik IX and heir to the throne; and Count Henri de Monpezat, 32, handsome French diplomat; in a royalty-studded ceremony in Copenhagen's ancient Holmens Church...
Lowell plodded doggedly into an epic on the Crusades. His first published poem, Madonna, was pretty bad, even for a school magazine: Celestial were her robes; Her hands were made divine; But the Virgin's face was silvery bright Like the holy light! Which from God's throne Is said to shine...
Born. To King Constantino of the Hellenes, 26, and Queen Anne-Marie, 20, his Danish-born wife of almost three years: their second child, first son, and first in line to the throne; in Tatoi Palace, 15 miles north of Athens...