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...several "secret" manuscripts. To the family priest he handed the coin, with instructions to give it to the poor. Then he unfolded and read over one of the papers: a daring plan which nine-year-old Archduke Otto had devised to restore the Habsburgs to the Austro-Hungarian throne...
...Vatican, day after this editorial appeared, Mr. Taylor was received by Pope Pius XII almost exactly as the Christian Century had (however seriously) suggested. In full evening dress and black spats, the Ambassador was ushered into the Hall of the Little Throne (instead of the big hall of the Throne), where Pius XII awaited him. Instead of thrice genuflecting and kissing the papal ring, Mr. Taylor bowed twice as he advanced, bowed again while shaking the Pope's hand. Then the Episcopal steelman handed Pius XII two letters. One was from Mr. Roosevelt to "Your Holiness," in which...
Died. Prince Aage of Denmark, 52, veteran officer in the French Foreign Legion; after brief illness; in Taza, French Morocco. Cousin of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Constantine of Greece, he renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he was 26. Said he then: "It wasn't such a sacrifice...
...minutes later he stood in the Imperial throne room...
...figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...