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...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
...Spanish press to keep his most obvious secrets was shown, last week, when he suppressed for three days a newspaper at smart San Sebastian which had dared to print a photograph revealing that the calves & ankles of Senorita Mercedes Castellanos are chunky and unslender-as are those of Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan...
...staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins aboard the lie de France had been occupied at a cost of $20,000. From the pier Captain Loewenstein & Party motored to the Hotel Ambassador, where they settled down in the comfortable third floor once occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926, et seq.). Soon fastidious Captain Loewenstein read with pain certain ignorant, flapdoodling headlines. The Times: "LOEWENSTEIN . . . 'MYSTERY MAN'. . . POTENTATE . . . Here With Private Aviator [and] Two Cars." The Herald Tribune: "WORLD'S THIRD WEALTHIEST MAN HERE LIKE KING." The World: "LOEWENSTEIN...
Also BURLESQUE, THE QUEEN'S HUS BAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, VOLPONE...
...March, the baby was born and with it, thought sophisticated newsreaders, a precedent. They foresaw future front pages headlined with "scoops" in a day when scoops are rare. . . . ASTERBILTS ABOUT TO HAVE A CHILD. . . . MOVIE QUEEN WILL BEAR TWINS, DOCTOR PREDICTS. . . . MAGNATE'S OFFSPRING THREE WEEKS OVERDUE...