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...Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the chief rival claimant to leadership of U.S. (i.e., New York and Newport) society. The importance of the position she had won was fully apparent to Grace Vanderbilt. Said she on one occasion: "I feel deeply for poor dear...
...place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom...
...prizes will be presented by Guatsav Adolph VI, king of Sweden, in ceremonies at Stockholm Wednesday. Purcell shares this year's prize in physics with Stanford's Felix Bloch. Both simultaneously developed methods for measuring magnetic forces in atomic nuclei...
...fast, strenuous existence of a Yale, be it man or dog, proved too much for Dan VI, who died of a heart attack while vacationing in Florida. He had lasted only one year at the stremous pace...
While doctors are still not sure that smoking ever causes heart disease, they have seen a number of cases, with symptoms like angina pectoris, that probably resulted from smoking. The strongest cause & effect evidence is in thrombo-angiitis obliterans ("Buerger's disease," from which the late King George VI suffered). This "occurs most frequently among smokers and is severer among those persons who smoke excessively than among those who smoke little...