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...street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb for which he searched, in time. The black iron sphere became a white cloud of gas which pushed out the walls of the Chief's house and drove iron splinters through him. Mercifully he died an almost instantaneous death...
Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
Married. Sir Walter Peacock, 55, member of the Prince of Wales' staff; to Mrs. Irene Cynthia Humphreys; in London. The prince attended the wedding, but was unrecognized at first, and the bride drove about the streets for ten minutes, awaiting his arrival. The choir started the procession mistaking Lady Ian Malcolm for the bride. The prince, much amused, signed the register as first witness, insisted that the newlyweds leave the church ahead...
...York Clarence C. Pell of that city met Hewitt Morgan also of that city in the finals of the national amateur racquets tournament, Mr. Morgan having previously disposed of Stanley G. Mortimer, defending champion. Mr. Pell smashed hard drives to the front wall; drove the ball close to one side wall and then close to the other; employed a baffling change of pace; overwhelmed his opponent, 15-4, 15-9, 15-7. Winning is no novelty to Mr. Pell. At the conclusion of this tournament he found himself U. S. singles champion for the eighth time, co-holder...