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...Majesty beloved Albert I is King of the Belgians, but the most potent & picturesque Belgian is Captain Alfred Loewenstein. Last week the stocky, swarthy Captain stepped down upon Manhattan from the liner lie de France with modish but retiring Mme. Loewenstein. As a matter of course, they had occupied the liner's premier suite de luxe and had brought along as guests four titled friends, le Comte et la Comtesse de Grunnes & le Comte et la Comtesse de Montalembert. Equally as usual to the Loewensteins was their staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins...
Well posted observers spotted instantly the non-truth of this last headline. They recalled that during the slump of the Belgian franc (TIME, March 29, 1926, et seq.), the Government of Belgium flatly rejected a proposal by Captain Loewenstein that he should lend $50,000,000 "without interest" to save the franc, but only upon certain all too shrewd conditions...
When Captain Loewenstein had been in Manhattan for two days, last week, he could stand the flapdoodling no longer. Calling in the gaping newshawks, he addressed them in slightly broken English as follows: "You gentlemen have been altogether too kind. ... I am reminded of a French story which portrays a well-meaning gentleman using a stone in killing a fly which had perched on the head of a friend...
...Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was, obviously, wealthy. Early this summer Capt. Leslie Hamilton, British War flyer, commercial stunt flyer called the "Flying Gypsy," besought her backing for a transatlantic flight. The Princess trusted Captain Hamilton. For many years she had known him and flown with him. She advanced the money...
Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...