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Busy little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and his sloe-eyed Italian Tsarina were completely dumbfounded, as was everyone else in Sofia last week, when the capital suddenly went Communist...
...this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless...
Death in Biarritz came last week to another contemporary of grizzled Bomber Frolenko, 88-year-old Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. He, too, was typical of his generation in Russia, the group of ineffectively liberal aristocrats of the middle 19th Century. (Tsar Alexander II's liberation of the serfs did not, in the end, please the serfs because the plan made them pay-as-they-farmed.) A grandson of a sister of Tsar Alexander I, Prince Alexander became Commander of the Preobrajensky Guards at 28. In 1877 he captured Etropol in the war with Turkey. His father. Duke Constantine, gave...
...Russia's first railway was built in 1837 under Nicholas I, "The Iron Tsar," to connect St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with his summer palace at "Tsar's Village" (now "Children's Village") 14 mi. distant...
...Broadway as the heart of the world. When a pressagent offering a reporter whiskey says: "It's been analyzed," the reporter (Frank McHugh) says: "Lots of things are analyzed that I wouldn't want to drink." Good shot: Lee Tracy swallowing his profanity for the benefit of Tsar Will Hays when he says, "I wish to God I'd never done...