Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faithful or even a discreet husband. He made no attempt to disguise his many extra-marital affairs, and few Rumanians, to whom mistresses are certainly not unusual,* would have given his peccadilloes a second thought had not His Royal Highness happened one night in the Cercul Militar to meet a voluptuous young woman named Magda Lupescu. Daughter of a small shopkeeper, divorced wife of an Army lieutenant, she also happened to be half-Jewish in a country stridently antiSemitic. Notwithstanding, Carol fell for "Bibi"-as he called the titian-haired Magda-and for 16 years, through thick & thin...
...since 1932. That was 40% of its tax bill for that period. It had paid the rest. Month ago the State threatened to go to court to collect its bill for 1932-1933 ($7,230,000 of taxes, penalties & interest). With only $2,360,000 cash on hand to meet the tax bill, Jersey Central escaped to the courts...
...write in French. His novels are disturbing, as distinguished, and as subtly disciplined as the dreams they resemble. Last week he set beside them selections from a journal (1928-39) in the editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity; but from its opening pages onward it steadily gave them...
When Harvard's Varsity harriers string out along the starting line of New York's five-mile Van Courtland Park course this morning they will be favored to cop top honors in the first annual Heptagonal cross-country meet...
Cornell, however, remains a relatively unknown quantity, but not a negligible one, since the Big Red, which took seventh in the I. C. 4-A. meet a year ago, is considerably stronger this season and will provide Captain Penn Tuttle and his cohorts with their toughest competition. Ranney, Wing-enter, Schmidt, and Hoag are the Ithacans' big guns...