"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Fifty-eight-year-old Polar Explorer Linncoln Ellsworth announced he would leave Manhattan August 13 for his fourth expedition to Antarctica.
King Sisowath Monivong, 59-year-old ruler of the ancient protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China, dismissed approximately 100 of his 200 wives. Reason: economy. The dismissed ladies will keep themselves occupied with classical dancing, for which they are famed.
Few days after a stormy Atlantic crossing, German Opera Star Lotte Lehmann trotted out on the stage of London's Covent Garden * to sing the Marschallin in Der...
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