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...magnificent bust-up near Montélimar in southern France last autumn His Highness wrecked a brand new super-costly Farman,* strewed the highway with a tonneau full of fragile young ladies, escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...
Neither the nose nor the keenness escaped Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1740-1828), whose proud, grim marble bust is generally conceded to be the best, most expressive Washington likeness. U. S. patriots and artists were glad last week to hear that it had been purchased for a U.S. client by Manhattan Dealer Jonce I. McGurk, that it would soon be shipped to the U. S. Rumored buyers: John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. Rumored price...
Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
...been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose." Now bent, irritable, old, $5,000,000-Claimer Barlow professes himself reduced to beggary, from which the Slemp & Sanders names must rescue...