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...Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon VII...
...came on horseback and in coach-&-fours with Negro outriders. Then Chesapeake & Ohio built its main line past the resort. Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...
Died. Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin, 92, famed Scottish justice, intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
When strapping, hawk-nosed Prince Karl of Denmark was crowned King Haakon VII of Norway, 36 years ago, the crown, too large even for his Viking dome, slipped down over his ears. Superstitious observers whispered that this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women...
...Duke of Burgundy, Radio Paris blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn't changed...