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Congratulated: Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden, who was making a royal try at standing upright for his birthday this week (see cut). Next in line for the throne after his grandfather (since his father's plane-crash death last January), he was just turning one, already had the situation firmly in hand...
...vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared, lashing their tails, on state occasions. He also had a golden tree, sheltering a host of gold birds which warbled and flapped their wings...
Faced by an alarming obstacle in their attempt to dethrone the Whiffenpoofs from the mythical harmony throne of the East, twelve husky-treated undergraduates yesterday sent out an appeal for someone to name their new singing group...
Lllibet, Heiress Presumptive to the British Throne, came of age. Twenty-one guns in Capetown (where the Royal Family is visiting) boomed the event...
Married. Princess Catherine of Greece, 33, pretty, youngest sister of new King Paul; and Major Richard Brandram, 35, handsome, sporting British artilleryman; both for the first time; on the day her brother mounted the throne; in Athens...