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...junk dealer's daughter was again last week the issue that eclipsed all others in Rumania. It had been understood that King Carol was at last sending away this Jewish Pompadour. She was supposed to have been escorted out of the country and handsomely paid off by the Chief of Police of Bucharest. But last week red-haired Magda Lupescu was found to be still in Rumania and not all the King's censors and all the King's soldiers could suppress for more than a few days the fact that Pompadour Lupescu had come...
...Bucharest ghetto, legend enshrouds the wiles by which the junk dealer's daughter became La Pompadour. She is supposed to have learned that Carol would drive back one night along a certain woodland road. As the headlights of the royal car cut the darkness, out into the road staggered beauteous Magda, her clothing enticingly torn, her red hair flying. "Save me!" she cried and Carol, struck by her beauty, took her home, has been held by her charm ever since...
Since he flew to Europe in 1927 as the first transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...
What the college man will wear this year is a depressing subject to most clothing men. The usual junk, they expect. Any kind of pants and coat, no garters, few hats. For the correctly dressed student, if any, Brooks Brothers, Rogers Peet, and others, show brown slacks and gray coats, or vice versa. Nor are the slacks plain, by any means--brown herringbones, for instance, with a gray coat having a large green plaid and bellows pockets. White shoes, brown hat with black band...
...Somerville, Mass., Sign Painter Jeremiah Christopher Leonard bought a Madonna and Child from a junk shop for $6. For three years the painting hung in the Leonard parlor. Then it was shown to a doctor friend, an art connoisseur, who promptly called in experts. Boston Fogg and Metropolitan Museum people agreed that the picture was 400 to 500 years old. One expert thought it might be the work of Antoni Allegri (1494-1534), known as Correggio. If so, Sign Painter Leonard's painting might be worth...