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...about an even bet whether the trial will provide a great sensation on unexpected lines or will fizzle like a wet squib...
Crown Prince Mihai would still be enjoying a holiday with his mother in Britain this week if he had not read the Continental edition of the Daily Mail three weeks ago in Paris. In that paper was a squib about King Carol's mistress, red-haired Magda Lupescu. It was an old story to the rest of the world, but news to Crown Prince Mihai...
...suite in the swank hotel George V in Paris, where his wife lay ill, Samuel Instill stared pop-eyed at a squib in The People, London weekly: "Stricken Dollar King, now living in a Paris attic on $5 a week. . . cooking his own meals . . . beginning life all over again, only at the wrong end." When comparative strangers began to telephone with offers of alms Mr. Insull, whose pensions from utility companies which he once ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could...
Abroad the reaction was less favorable. In England, .Lombard Streeters referred to the plan as "a damp squib." Sir Walter Layton, Bank of England's representative on the Wiggin Committee, said it was "controlled inflation." In Paris the criticism was sharper, the eventual reaction on the Bourse violent. The third bank failure in Paris in ten days was announced, that of Banque Syndicale...
Editor Walker is married, has one daughter, is expecting another child. First to break the news publicly was, of course, gabby Colyumist Walter Winchell of the Mirror. Editor Walker read the squib, remarked: "Well, I guess this is all right? as long as I get a by-line...