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Looking cold, wet and royally uncomfortable, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands was photographed wading about Schouwen island, which has been covered by flood waters since the breaching of the dikes in last winter's gales...
Born. To Esther Williams, 31, cinemermaid (Dangerous When Wet), and second husband Ben Gage, 36, Los Angeles restaurateur: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan. Weight...
...prediction for fair, brisk weather for today cuts down the possibility of an upset by the Crimson. Munro's group may have stood a better chance of a wet or soggy field...
...Wet Protestant. Born the son of "a poore tenant" in Lincolnshire, Smith struck off at 20 for the Hungarian wars, where the Turks and the Habsburgs were battling for Transylvania. On the way, he said, he was robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...
When the museum opened last week, visitors could see just how well the craftsman's art links the peoples of the world. One display of shoes showed the common ingenuity of the world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes...