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...great French maitresses in the past, Marie Louise acquired by marriage the exalted nobility of the House d'Uzés, espoused the grandson of the greatest and most socially prominent horsewoman in all France, the late Dowager Duchesse d'Uzés (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933). Thereupon Marie Louise set out to become, as it were, the Pompadour of the Proletariat...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...
...fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that he goes blind. Mary thereupon regrets her previous highmindedness, offers herself to her lover, but his regard for her husband has deepened with his loss of sight, and it is his turn to do the rejecting. Mary, who expected nothing in the first place, does not seem particularly disappointed...
...Thereupon Captain Allen made for London, but news of the two tons of TNT had preceded him, and at Gravesend he was told that the Santa Maria was not wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
...Figure it out for yourself," sighed Banker Roosevelt. "That's the whole basis of this relief business. You take the money away from New York and give it to some backwoods state." RFChairman Jones thereupon challenged anyone to think up a better reorganization scheme. Banker Roosevelt promptly took him up, proposing to 1) split the road into an owning and an operating company connected by a one-year lease; 2) borrow $5,000,000 from RFC; 3) borrow $1,000,000 from Boston's rich, crotchety Frederick Henry Prince. In return for its money RFC would get first...