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...years ago Prince Nicholas was roaring over a country road when he came upon a stalled car. A taxi driver once blocked Prince Nicholas' car in Bucharest and Prince Nicholas swiftly kicked him in the pit of the stomach (TIME, April 7, 1930), but this was different. Standing by the car (which had a punctured tire) was a plump, dark-eyed, deep-dimpled Rumanian beauty. Prince Nicholas stopped, descended, bowed and offered to drive the beauty back to Bucharest...
Prince Nicholas and his black-haired bride, who is also known as Mme Savianu -her name before she divorced her first husband-stayed in a villa in the country, afraid to come back to Bucharest. King Carol took his tonsilitis & bronchitis off to bed. At intervals he sat up, ordered all records of the marriage destroyed, demanded that the Rumanian Parliament issue a denial that the marriage had ever taken place...
Chaos but not panic gripped world money marts last week. With the British paper pound (which fortnight ago was golden) gyrating madly up and down between $4.40 and $3.45 not a single exchange in Europe could function freely. Berlin's exchange was "closed indefinitely." From Berlin to Bucharest the governments of Eastern Europe either banged shut their bourses or chained up bear traders with iron rules. Tokyo's exchange was shut. Chileans learned, not without grief, that half the Central Bank of Chile's "gold reserve" is in British pounds-i.e. has turned to paper. Even...
...Bucharest, nine-year-old Crown Prince Michael of Rumania passed his third-grade examinations with an average...
...Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...