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Carol. Likewise barred from attending King Ferdinand's funeral was his eldest son, Carol. This somewhat notorious prince, father of King Michael, still lives in seclusion in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He has espoused, respectively in morganatic and natural union, two ladies of nonroyal blood: Mme. Zizi Lambrino, who has borne him a son, Mircea, older by two years than Michael; and Mme. Magda Lupescu, who some time ago displaced Mme. Lambrino (TIME, March...
...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...putting the newspaper in such a position, has never come out. But last week the Herald Tribune left no doubt in the public mind but that Mr. Forrest is now in the best of standing. Mr. Forrest, like many another correspondent, had hurried last fortnight from Paris to Ver-sur-Mer on the Channel coast as soon as news was flashed that Flyer Byrd and comrades had come down there. Mr. Forrest was alert and daring enough to get a commercial pilot to whisk him off to the coast through the stormy night so that he arrived before...
Aroused from sleep, the villagers of Ver-sur-Mer aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...
...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...