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...placed third), and he cut a middling campus swath as head of the Glee Club, a leader of the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha, and a stellar player in an opera called Top of the Morning. His role: a bold, bad conspirator, constantly plotting a coup to seize the throne...
...recovered their Pacific empire. But the plan to postpone popular elections is one of several indications that the exiled Government is none too sure of its reception at home. Many Dutchmen expect a demand for widespread governmental reform; few expect any strong demand that the Queen give up her throne. But the possibility exists, and 63-year-old Queen Wilhelmina is canny enough to meet it before it becomes serious...
...evening soon after the fall of Rome, hobnailed boots clumped into the plush-gold Throne Room at the Papal Palace. Some 200 war correspondents, army PRO's, photographers and gate-crashers crowded the hallowed consistorial chamber. Promptly at 7 p.m. His Holiness opened the most unusual press interview ever granted by a Pope...
Unperturbed, high on the dais in front of his massive gold throne, stood the Vicar of Jesus Christ. In heavily accented but clearly understood English, the tall Pontiff blessed the newshawks, gave them fatherly counsel...
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, squarely seated on the presiding archiepiscopal throne of Manhattan's jampacked St. Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,† blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like...