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Tall, brunette Princess Marina's swarthy brother-in-law, Prince Paul of Jugoslavia, has a castle near Bled amid the wild beauty of the Slovene Alps. There the courtship ripened as George, 31, and Marina, 27, swam in the icy lake, galloped over mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Court Circular | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

That this country which bled for democracy sheds tears for a dictator instead of for an unfortunate people, suppressed, torn by civil strife, and willing to fight to the bitter end for its liberty, is, I hope, due to the influence of the press. But that TIME, ordinarily fair and farsighted, falls in with this view, is a disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vampire | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...Students are enticed by convenience of location into this subterranean palace where they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were not for the fact that the student that enters the fairy palace is bled by outrageous prices. For instance: the price of a glass of tomato or orange juice is listed as twenty-five cents; something that cannot possibly cost the Dining Hall System more than ten cents, granting every inclusion of fixed costs such as overhead and service. And at that an infant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Night Lunch | 3/22/1934 | See Source »

...fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island R.R.'s one rotary snowplow was derailed, crushing a trainman to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Carbon Copy of 1888 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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