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...Rumania's ex-King Carol was leaving Mexico City for Brazil and Europe last week, a courier from the Soviet Embassy arrived. For Carol he brought a note regretting that a previous engagement kept Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky from waving farewells; for Carol's mistress, Magda Lupescu, a corsage of orchids...
...soldiers silently forced Antonescu up the stairs to a small fireproof vault King Carol had built to safeguard his stamp collection. There they locked...
...last week the royal grapevine was abuzz with a dramatic whisper. Royalty had a new champion-the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Washington came a report that Moscow had sounded out London on the subject of restoring Rumania's ex-King Carol to his throne. The Russians believed that Carol, now in Mexico with his mistress, Magda Lupescu, might be just the man to establish a Rumanian government "very friendly" to Moscow...
...Stupid Philistines." The city planners' replies were less pungent, but almost as rude. Wrote Manhattan's Carol Aronovici, author of Housing the Masses, and a professional city planner: "Does the Commissioner not recognize the existence of chaotic disorganization in our cities or is it merely that he objects to intelligent, experienced students of cities expressing an opinion in a field in which he is trying to secure full control?" Barbara Lewis of Trenton, N.J. compared Moses to a pulp magazine reader who presumes to attack Shakespeare and Tolstoy. "The genius of Saarinen and Gropius will fortunately long survive...
...skaters run, dance, sing, chase girls, climb ladders, turn cartwheels, there really seems no reason why life itself should not be lived on skates. Yet it is the actual skatin -the grace of Carol Lynne, the teamwork of the Caley Sisters, the precision of the ice ballet-that gives Hats Off most of its lift; the big, exotic production numbers are pretty enough, but they induce more Persian or Hawaiian languor than they mean...