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...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...
...kitchens of the great hotels of Europe there is another Zaharoff legend. It is said that the Man of Mystery now and then chases cooks from their ranges and takes delight in cooking, by a method known only to himself, bananas...
Late despatches movingly depicted the grief of Sir Basil Zaharoff at his wife's death. It appears that for 36 hours he allowed no word of it to be announced. When the funeral was held at the Church of St. Charles, Monte Carlo, he hobbled in through a side door, "gasping, broken, twitching, scarcely able to walk in his gout slippers...
...said to have ordered the burial to take place in May, when Lady Zaharoff's favorite flowers will be in bloom. He is understood to have declared that he will never visit Monte Carlo again, lest he be reminded unbearably of the days he spent there with...
Died. Lady Maria Zaharoff, 56, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, of pneumonia (see Monaco...