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...Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge and letter-writing. After three dull weeks, the gaudy ex-gambling palace in the valley of fog was finally coming into...
Antonescu (violently): "Given? What order? Does Your Majesty know that Your Majesty might lose the throne...
...first person he encounters on landing. That turns out to be his son Idamante, who is in love with Ilia, daughter of the vanquished King of Troy. The gods finally clear up the whole matter, and the opera ends four hours later with Idamante and Ilia on the throne. Even the charm of Mozart's music failed to offset the plot...
...church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...
Next CBS picks up Newsman Jackson Beck "in the throne room of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella," then back to Daly in a rowboat...