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After World War I he spent years in Yugoslav staff activity, became an expert on Nazi fifth-column activity. Early in 1940 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for "disloyalty" in filing documents on the fifth column with Regent Prince Paul and the Serb quisling-to-be, General Milutin Nedich. Friends near the high command had Mihailovich freed...
...recently Carol has begun to miss the privileges and perquisites of kingship. Last week he announced that in response to "exhortations and appeals" he would presently emerge as Regent of Free Rumania, hoping for a day when Adolf Hitler would be disposed of and Rumania could become "a monarchy based on democratic principles...
Some of Carol's qualifications for the job of Regent were recalled: > On his first visit to New York, in 1920, he bought a bartender's guide. > In London, after George V's funeral in 1936, he went on such a binge that Rumanian attaches cried "Our King is lost!" until he turned up just in time for the boat train. > Of the present Duke of Windsor, he passed the peculiar judgment: "I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium -rare equilibrium!" > After years of Rumanian misrule...
...bright red pajamas Lawrence W. ("Chip") Robert Jr. popped out of a plane in Atlanta one midnight last month, rushed with seven other members of Georgia's Board of Regents to a nearby building, there convened a special meeting of the board. Purpose: a last desperate effort to save Georgia's academic reputation. The regents hurriedly voted to rehire two educators they had previously voted to fire at the behest of Governor Eugene Talmadge (Dr. Walter D. Cocking and Dr. Marvin S. Pittman-TIME, July 21; July 28), then let Regent Robert resume his trip...
...soldier in Regent Street made a compromise with his ideals, hawked matches to blackout crowds at threepence a box. The boxes contained burned-out matches...