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Alexander, onetime Grand Duke of Russia, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Tsar, died in February on the Riviera. In this posthumous book of post-Revolution memoirs he has told, with a cynical eye to U. S. readers, what it felt like to be a Romanoff in exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ci-Devant | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...indictment of Impostor Harry F.("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson for perjury and illegal entry into the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 2, 9, 23) : a sentence of 90 days in jail and three years on probation; in Manhattan Federal Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide of L. Donovan Bisbee, Hoax and Snake-in-the -Grass, Marks End of Lurid Career--Creators To Return To Books | 2/7/1933 | See Source »

...gullibility of a learned committee which permitted itself to be duped by so glib a charlatan. Even his name, now that it's all over, seems a little too well chosen. But when one considers the success of such men as Dr. Cook and Prince Harry F. Romanoff, one cannot be too harsh with a faculty which trusted a man skillful enough to elude the Reich's police for four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/3/1933 | See Source »

Indicted. Harry F. ("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson; for illegal U. S. entry (TIME, Jan. 2, 9); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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