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...Author. Maurice Dekobra, 45, citizen of the world, one of Europe's most popular romance-writers, has lectured at the University of Berlin, shot big game in Africa, canoed on the Nile, translated Defoe, Jack London, O. Henry into his native French. His own books have been translated into 23 languages. During the War he was liaison officer with the British, Indian and U. S. Armies, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Other books: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, The 13th Lover, The Clown Prince, The Love Clinic, Serenade to the Hangman...
...Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways...
...other foci: 1 & 2) in China, whence the modern outbreak of the late 1890s spread, one on the eastern slope of the Himalayas, one on the western slope; 3) from the centre of Arabia to Mesopotamia; 4) Uganda near the source of the White Nile...
Chicago finally became too small for him. He went to Florida where officials did not receive him cordially. Through a dummy he purchased for $65,000 a great white stucco house with a nile-green tiled roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife...
Bucharest papers confidently asserted that Dowager Queen Marie, who was houseboating on the Nile with Princess Ileana last week, had persuaded her daughter, who is of age and has a private fortune of $260,000, that she must not marry the Count...