Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage null, banished Zizi, had the son she had borne declared illegitimate, and cut off Carol's allowance. Outflanked and outmaneuvered, Carol jot ted a note to Zizi protesting his eternal love for her and admitting the parentage of their son; then he dutifully married Princess Helen of Greece...
...years that followed, Queen Helen bore Carol a properly royal son, Prince Michael, who twice reigned as King of Rumania. Carol himself tired of Helen and took up with a Rumanian officer's wife named Elena ("Magda") Lupescu. Carol was banished, returned to rule for ten years, and was banished a final time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared...
...Angelo. Texas (pop. 52,000), the murder was the biggest news in years. Wealthy Helen Harris Weaver. 51. wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas...
Then Donahue persuaded Helen Weaver's family to offer $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer, plastered the reward-offer story on the front page of the Press. It touched off a chain reaction of tips from underworld informers. First two tipsters said in affidavits that Harry Washburn, the son-in-law, had paid them a total of $750 to shoot not Helen Weaver but her husband. Police promptly arrested Washburn on the charge of murder...
Before setting off on a 40,000-mile tour of the Far East, Helen Keller, 74, whose senses have steadily quickened ever since she was struck blind, deaf and dumb in childhood, was guest of honor at a farewell banquet in Manhattan, where she received through her fingers the words of a greeting from Eleanor Roosevelt. In the Orient, Dr. Keller will plug for expanded facilities for the physically handicapped...