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Three days before Christmas, Melvin Hass, 28, an ex-major of infantry now an oil company employee, did what thousands of Kansans were doing to fortify themselves for the holidays. He drove to Missouri, bought two bottles of bourbon for himself and seven bottles for some friends and toted them in his car back to bone-dry Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Nine Little Bottles | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...nothing to do with it. Nor was Michael's abdication, as many a U.S. and British sob sister declared, the climax of a lightning-swift and star-crossed romance. The Communists had decided to get rid of Michael long before he met his wistful, willowy Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Compression | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Bottoms Up. In Baltimore, the embarrassed manufacturers of Gallagher & Burton's bourbon promised outraged customers an investigation; somehow, 3,600 half-pints labeled as whiskey had turned out to be straight city water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting. The goodbyes were perhaps not forever. Teddybear-tall (6 ft. 2 in.), shy King Michael of Rumania kissed his girl goodbye. The girl was long-legged Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tender Parting | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma and Denmark, clerked in a swank hat shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tender Parting | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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