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Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, red-haired mistress to Carol of Rumania, had her face lifted in Mexico by a Manhattan plastic surgeon-said to be lifter by previous royal appointment to Rumania's Queen Marie and the Duchess of Windsor. His 13 stitches were removed after eleven days, were reported to have restored the old Lupescutaneous charm...
Presently the Vallee show (NBC, Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.W.T.) began revolving almost entirely around thin (118 lb.), good-looking (except for the nose), redheaded Joan. Simulated muscle woman, wrestler and weight lifter, irrepressible Joan took the toughest punishment and bobbed up for more...
...Lifter. In Patchogue, L.I., Frank T. Marino, who had gallantly given a lift to a woman whose car had broken down, was given 180 days in jail for returning to her car and stealing two tires...
...Symphony No. 9 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor; 20 sides; $10.50). A vast, brooding, world-weary work by a composer who, 30 years after his death, still starts critical dogfights. Mahler's friends say that he stormed heaven; his enemies, that he was a frustrated bootstrap-lifter. The friends will welcome this recording of a beautiful concert-hall performance...
...have had access to the official Uruguayan commission that examined Spee: "We are authoritatively able to give assurance that the Graf Spee's fighting capacity was almost totally nullified in the battle. Its control tower had been damaged so that its artillery could not be managed. Its ammunition lifter had been paralyzed and heavy shells had to be carried on the shoulders of sailors. Therefore, when Captain Langsdorff ordered it to Montevideo, the ship was practically out of fighting condition...