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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed "Old Marshal" Chang began life as a coolie, made himself the uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June...
...Down Upon de Pedee ribber." "Pedee" did not quite suit Foster. His brother suggested the Yazoo but that seemed harsh. Together they scoured the Atlas, picked on the Suwanee River in Florida. Foster's songs earned him $15,091, a rich amount for the times. But Foster drank up much of it and his wife had to get a job as a telegrapher. During his last years publishers were eager to get Foster's songs and he turned them out rapidly, wrote them on wrapping paper, if there was nothing else handy...
...ballerinas' feet. Samovars and champagne pails were in the dressing-rooms. Out front were people who had paid up to $100 for their seats. There were cheers and flowers for every curtain call. At a champagne supper afterwards old Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath was so enthusiastic that he drank a toast from a $65 slipper...
...skinned Tamara Toumanova, 14, whom London calls the second Pavlova. She was born in a train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well...
...four sovereigns saw priests break crosswise into four chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia...