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...Hohen's excellently placed drives controlled the match and for the most part he was content either to let Hamm make the errors or draw him out of position for easy put-away shots...
...arrested with my husband when we were trying to escape to Western Germany," said one woman. "We were accused of espionage for the Americans. My husband was sentenced to ten years and sent to Russia. The most terrible time I had was in the NKVD cellar at Hohen-schönhausen. One woman slashed her wrists and a man hanged himself...
...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
Most fortunate European refugee of the week was Prince Alexander Hohen-Lohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a naturalized Pole of Austrian-German extraction who fled to Rumania last month with U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Mrs. Biddle and her daughter by a previous marriage, Miss Peggy Schulze. In Paris, with U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt acting as best man, the 21-year-old Prince married 18-year-old Peggy, whose mother is an $85,000,000 copper heiress...
...tree is the pecan. Native pecans are also plentiful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the improved varieties reach the market from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina where tourists find almost as many pecan venders on the roadside as gasoline stations. Pecan trees grow big, old. Near Hohen Solms, La., 40 miles south of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River, is a tree 13 ft. in diameter. Some pecan trees have had as many as 1,000 birthdays...