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Word: lupescu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Kings | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, red-haired mistress to Carol of Rumania, had her face lifted in Mexico by a Manhattan plastic surgeon-said to be lifter by previous royal appointment to Rumania's Queen Marie and the Duchess of Windsor. His 13 stitches were removed after eleven days, were reported to have restored the old Lupescutaneous charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Strikers | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Brought together in Mexico City's radio station XEW by the first south-of-the-border broadcast of a big-time U.S.. program were Rumania's ex-King Carol, Mistress Magda Lupescu, U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith and wife Marion, pert Puppet Charlie McCarthy and Dandier Edgar Bergen. "Hi, horseface!" yipped Charlie, staring down from the stage at a U.S. Embassy attaché's small son. The audience guffawed, thinking he was addressing McCarthy-fan Carol, who has acquired that nickname in certain Mexico City circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...months fat-cheeked Carol of Rumania has found Mexico City's suburb Coyoacan an agreeable place for his exile, complete with his red-haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Job Wanted | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...monthly. ∽∽ Princess Olga Troubetzkoi of the Philadelphia Social Register was arrested for running a high-toned bawdyhouse in Manhattan,∽∽ Ex-King Carol of Rumania was reported dickering for admission to the U.S. Reason: Cuban society wasn't having any of Elena Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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