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...Chen Pu-lei (Gissimo's secretary) : chun...
...finding WAAC life dull, she had posed as a stranded showgirl and landed a job in the Casino's chorus. Four days later she had been upped to "Samoan Love Dancer" (the drummer beat a tomtom while she wiggled in a lei) and stripteaser (blue lights followed her around the stage as she teased off a gown borrowed from Mrs. DeCenzie). By Nov. 28 WAAC authorities had discovered where she was and quietly hauled her back to Fort Des Moines. Last week the news leaked and reporters persuaded the Fort's genial commandant, Colonel John A. Hoag...
Rumania was flooded with an issue of 20-lei banknotes on which had been rubber-stamped the slogans "Peace with the Soviet! . . . Down with Antonescu and Hitler! . . . We want Transylvania! [TIME, March 30] . . . Out with the Germans!" Rumanian society from top to bottom was angered by puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu's granting of heavy German demands for food and troops...
...lesser Hawaiian islands, a curious place, half paradise, half fruit stand. There blonde Miss Grable, who is especially well organized for paradisal parts, doffs the sweater she has lived in at school on the U.S. mainland and resumes her role as the community's No. 1 lei girl...
According to the stories told, before his abdication Carol had built a royal hunting lodge costing 150,000,000 lei ($780,000), and stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania...