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...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Playtime | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

King without a Visa. In Brazil, another royal D.P. had been sitting on his packed bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Royal D.P.s | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...King and Madame were devoted to the dogs. The dogs were devoted to the royal suite-so much so that after four months all the carpets had to be taken up and cleaned. But "it was beautiful," said the valet of Carol and Madame Lupescu. "The greatest thing they have in common is the dogs. The only thing they talk about" is the dogs. But the dogs won't go outside to the trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Royal D.P.s | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...King Carol was leaving Mexico City for Brazil and Europe last week, a courier from the Soviet Embassy arrived. For Carol he brought a note regretting that a previous engagement kept Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky from waving farewells; for Carol's mistress, Magda Lupescu, a corsage of orchids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: The Language of Flowers | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Blitz in Bessarabia | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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