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...Tsar. To bigwigs in the pin-game industry, official antagonism is nothing new. For the past year, pin-game operators all over the U. S. have been intermittently assailed by the authorities. Since many of them got into the industry from the peep-show or slot-machine fields, they are at no loss to discover means of dealing with such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball...
During intermission at a Vienna Philharmonic concert old ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria shuffled backstage to congratulate Conductor Arturo Toscanini, received word that the maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston...
With Napoleon in Russia begins in 1811, when Napoleon, confiding in no one, had already decided to go to war with Tsar Alexander. When Caulaincourt, who had been Russian Ambassador, warned him against the war, assured him that Alexander wanted peace, Napoleon said, "You speak like a Russian." Napoleon insisted with mixed irritation and playfulness that Caulaincourt had become Alexander's man. Forthright, convinced that the plan was suicide, Caulaincourt persisted even after he had been publicly humiliated by Napoleon, snubbed at receptions, rebuffed in his plans for marriage...
...River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved his connections and platform manners, ran again for Governor last year. This time, having promised...
Marie Scheikévitch is the daughter of a wealty Russian art collectorwho settled in Paris nea the end of the 19th Century. Time Past begins with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant...