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TIME, in the issue of April 28, says: "Last week St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington's famed insane asylum, was officially made a defense agency...
...Nearly all Government bureaus have now been classified as "defense agencies," including even Fish and Wildlife, National Park, Grazing Services. Last week St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington's' famed insane asylum, was officially made a defense agency...
...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
There were reports that Carol and Magda had received offers of asylum from Cuba, where it was figured he and Magda would be tourist drawing cards, and from Germany. Herr Hitler was said to suggest that Carol and his Jewish mistress reside not in the Reich proper but in Belgium or Holland. Meanwhile much of Carol's fortune is already banked in Manhattan, and most friends of the couple expect them to turn up sooner or later in its cafe society...
...under Dr. Woolley's rule had been "little short of miraculous." But last week, no one was more outspoken in denouncing Byberry than Superintendent Woolley. Said he: "When I came here Byberry was a medieval pest house. It's now the equal of an 18th-Century insane asylum. It's a disgrace to any community or government which calls itself civilized." Without more ado, he told the world what was wrong with his Bedlam-the most famous of all 18th-Century asylums, which London regarded as a sort of zoo and visited for amusement...