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Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...
...first newspaper in America came out in Boston Sept. 25, 1690, and was slapped down the same day. It was banned by Governor Simon Bradstreet for want of a license, and for an unseemly leer at Louis XIV of France ("If reports be true," gossiped Editor Ben Harris, "[he] used to sleep with the Sons Wife...
Stiffly stuffy Charles de Gaulle last week heard that the French Government wished to present a special medal* to him, Stalin, Churchill and (posthumously) Roosevelt. De Gaulle approved the other three, but bowed himself out with giraffe-like grace. Said he, updating Louis XIV: "Governments do not decorate themselves. The acts that I accomplished were done at a time when I exercised the function of Chief of State...
Astride his huge granite charger, Louis XIV, most unrepublican of monarchs, arrogantly dominates the sloping courtyard outside the Elysée Palace. Under Louis' haughty eye last week, Vincent Auriol's black Delage bumped slowly over the cobblestones. Bugles blared and magnesium flares zigzagged through the gathering gloom...
...boarded up, parts were shipped in mainly by private cars. Doors were guarded night & day. Only two Kiwanis officers were in the know. Sometimes as many as 1,000 tourists a day swarmed over the castle and poked through Sir Henry's 40-by-60-foot bedroom (Louis XIV style). They passed within a few feet of the stable, were told it was closed because it was "undergoing repairs...