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...Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania to have to receive a foreign monarch. Yet undaunted from Bulgaria came brisk little Tsar Boris and Tsaritza Ioanna who is a daughter of the King of Italy. What if they should be assassinated...
...Tsar has a way with him. In Bulgaria he drives his own car unguarded about the countryside, chats with peasants who find him far more democratic than most Bulgarian owners of automobiles. Arriving in Rumania last week the Tsar of the Bulgars created a sensation by strolling up and down the platform, gossiping with country folk when his special train halted at a small village. "King Carol never does that," frowned a Rumanian official. "It was an act, one might say, almost undiplomatic...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London where they just finished a 20-week run, she had so many admirers that Colonel...
...asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give...