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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone knows how in less than a year Gigolo Subkoff ran through Princess Victoria's $3,000,000 fortune, squandered it on wenches, motors and champagne while she adoringly forgave. Little known in the U. S. are Subkoff's memoirs: Ma Vie et Mes Amours, printed recently at Paris. He writes with surprising decency?for a gigolo?of Princess Victoria, explains as delicately as possible how a youth of 27 can fall in love with a widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Professor Charles Edward Merriam of the Politics department ran for mayor in 1911. He was called "unofficial premier of Chicago" during the mayoralty (1923?27) of his good friend William Emmett Dever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon, the final practice of the season was held; the men ran over a rather longer distance than they have been covering during the year, as the Van Cortlandt Park course is six miles in length instead of the acoustomed five and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS COUNTRY SQUAD TO GO TOMORROW AFTERNOON | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...McLennan, flashy Sophomore back who last Saturday vaulted to fame when, subbing for Booth, he ran wild against the Princeton Tiger and sent him back thinking that Booth played anyway. He scored Yale's first touchdown practically singlehanded when he carried the ball 11 successive times until he finally scored, covering 68 yards in the precess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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