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Young Rumania, who is only as old as a middle-aged woman,* remembers Ion Bratianu as the Father of His Country. The land was profoundly stirred last week when Father Ion's able grandson George Bratianu, leader of the Liberal Party, had to fight a nasty duel...
...nasty are most European duels, the duelists firing (by agreement) into the air, thus "satisfying their honor" and whetting their appetites for the customary champagne luncheon. But last week Socialite George Bratianu had on his hands Rumania's budding Hitler, the "Baby Fascist" Gregory Filipescu. Terms of the duel: pistols at 25 yd., to be followed if no one was hit by a duel unto death with sabres...
There most certainly were! Everyone connected with the duel was firm about that point. To prove it George Bratianu showed a hole through which he said a bullet had entered his trousers and lodged there. He produced a bullet, smilingly declared himself unwounded. But he had been hit, agreed the seconds, so there was no need to duel nastily to the death with sabres...
Europe. A certain General Adolfo Baldrich promptly challenged General Uriburu to duel. General Uriburu announced that his pleasure trip to Europe was really a most pressing trip to Germany where he would undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived...
...illustrated talk last night in the Senior Common Room on "Giants, Dwarfs, and the Pituitary Gland." Some of the famous freaks of human development were described, including Jeffery Hudson, a court jester in the time of Charles First, who although only 18 inches tall killed an opponent in a duel and lived to the age of 63; and the Russian giant Machnow, who attained the height of nine feet, three inches. Slides were shown explaining the experimental gigantism produced in rats by the injection of pituitary gland extracts...