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OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in January | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Communist. Having barely escaped deportation proceedings during a U.S. lecture tour in 1935, young Mr. Strachey this year set out on another with the proofs of a new book, Hope in America, under his arm. Last week he sat cooling his heels, along with a Hungarian pianist and two Montenegrin stowaways, in the flag-draped detention room at Ellis Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Persistent Pink | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post-War formation of Yugoslavia. Patriarch Gabriel will enjoy the fruit of the Church's victory by agreement-the Government must consult him next time it plans any negotiations with the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reheaded | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...been back at Taliesin long before the house again burned down, this time destroying hundreds of valuable things Wright had brought from Japan. Again he rebuilt Taliesin. Then his second wife, Miriam Noel, left him. Before he was able to marry Olgivanna, the soft-voiced, Montenegrin woman who is his present wife, they and their baby were incredibly harried by the newspapers, the Noel lawyers and the police, who jailed them, once in Milwaukee. Wright could get no work, could earn no money. Taliesin fell into the hands of a bank and Wright got it back only when a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Carlo Opera House, applauded heartily. Her latest patriotic exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie-José's birth pangs came on prematurely there was time for her strapping Montenegrin mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, to rush from Rome to Naples, but her more fragile mother, the sad-eyed, widowed Queen Mother of the Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God's Sign | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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