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...young man, are my custodian." said Samuel Insull smiling as he shook hands with Burton Y. Berry, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy, in the cabin of the Exilona's captain. Still smiling he turned to Police Commissioner Nail Bey and said, "If I ever come to Turkey again I will look you up. I hope you will have no official reason to look me up." Then young Mr. Berry signed a receipt for the person of Samuel Insull and the Turks, bowing, departed...
...Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...
...Nash, she figured in a notorious lawsuit brought by Paris dress makers against her husband in which the Judge declared: "She threw herself be neath the fatal curse of luxury. . . . Dress and dress alone seems to have been her end in life." Mrs. Nash next married Prince Mohammed Sabit Bey of Egypt. Six weeks later she induced him to divorce her. The following year she married M. Dubonnet. Her five unions have produced four children. Awaiting trial and his mother in Manhattan last week, Son Andrew admitted his identity, explained that until he boarded the President Garfield he had never...
...Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that he had bet on his own races. U. S. racing associations respectfully upheld the English action, unhorsed Jockey Sloan at home...
...White Russian family which never sat back in its efforts to get others to support it was much in the news last week: the "Marrying Mdivanis" of Georgia. In 1923 a General Zakhari Mdivani appeared in Paris. As a Mohammedan chieftain of the Caucasus, he was recognized as a Bey or Prince by the Russian Imperial Court. which acknowledged all Georgian "Princes" possessed of a pair of shoes, a stone house, a flock of sheep and a rifle. Prince Mdivani (pronounced Mmmdivani) had little money, but. as a Circassian Cornelia, he had his jewels; five children, all very good looking...