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...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
Politicians and Kings. Teheran doomed Rumania's hopes that it could: 1) retain its prewar frontiers; 2) win Anglo-U.S. political support against the Soviet Union. Now, Bucharest must think again and think fast. It must find an alternative regime and spokesman which will satisfy the U.S., Britain-and Russia...
...April, the Red Army published a map showing the gains of the previous winter. On the western fringe of that map lay Odessa, Kiev, Mogilev, Vitebsk-all still deep in the enemy's rear. On the western fringe of the map published in Moscow newspapers last week lay Bucharest, Warsaw, Konigsberg in East Prussia...
...Rumania, has the serious appearance of most earnest satirists. His father was a box manufacturer, his mother "made wonderful cakes with all sorts of decorations. They were so beautiful I didn't even have the courage to eat them." After a year of philosophy at the University of Bucharest, young Steinberg decided that architecture was his field, Italy the country to study it in. He was seven years getting his degree because he spent so much time drawing...
Blonde, brown-eyed Jackie Cochran got into almost everything early. At four she was orphaned, at 14 she was an experienced beauty-parlor operator, at 24 she was about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite 34, and the acknowledged No. 1 feminine flyer of the U.S., the successful manager of a cosmetic business and a model orphanage, the mistress of four country and city homes, the wife of Big Businessman Floyd Odium...