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Oscar Wilde swathed her in orchidaceous epigrams. The learned Sir Edmund Gosse called her "the most accomplished living poet of India." Even Queen Victoria was impressed by Sarojini Chattopadhyav, the brilliant daughter of a fabulously rich Hindu of the highest Brahmin caste - but all that was years & years ago.
Holkar, Maharani of Indore, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since she married the rich ex-Maharajah in Bombay four years ago. Traveling through Canada to escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her...
The gold braid of Foreign Service leaves much the same romantic impression in a young man's mind as do the graceful chain of lakes that surround the University of Wisconsin. Publishing appears as an affable, gentlemanly vocation to the young graduate seeking a job. Industry has lost caste in...
Last September Lieut. Massie's 20-year-old wife, who was Thalia Fortescue, was seized by five natives, carried out toward Waikiki Beach, brutally and repeatedly raped. The attack made her pregnant, necessitated an operation. Navy men and the permanent white residents of Honolulu boiled with outrage and indignation. Mrs...
With special police patrolling the streets and the city on the verge of martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of...