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...Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur stops the car and says. I am pretending there is something wrong with the motor, for if the soldiers see a good automobile they immediately will steal...
Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
...Duke of Leeds, who married Marianne de Malkhazouny, Serbian ballet dancer, in 1933, sold his estates for $1,250,000 and his ancestral coronet for $40 and now lives on the Italian Riviera...
...Jugoslavia, all the U. S. was much more interested in the new Marshal of the Court appointed last week, Dr. Slavko Y. F. Grouitch, longtime Minister to Washington. In 1901 handsome Dr. Grouitch was Serbian Secretary at the Legation in Athens. Thither went the Gibson-Girlish Miss Mabel G. Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va. to study archeology. She met and married Dr. Grouitch...
Mabel Grouitch is today the best known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them...