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...seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania's eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture...
Tandem-Wing Monoplane. While Giuseppe H. Bellanca, Italian, was designing a monoplane with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...
...also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...
...want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...
Last week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...