Word: zog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark the second anniversary of his birth, which occurred three days before Mussolini drove his parents, Albania's Zog and Geraldine, into exile, Crown Prince Skander, a curly-headed refugee who has visited as many capitals as an Axis foreign minister, climbed on a chair at London's Dorchester House, sat for his picture (see cut) like a good fellow...
...poor men of Europe is Albania's ex-King Zog, who has trouble getting up his rent (TIME, April 8). Last week ex-King Zog, who now lives in a suburb of Paris, had money trouble with another exile. One Arthur Horowitz, ex-Viennese ex-furrier, sued him for $100,000, which, ex-Furrier Horowitz claimed, the ex-King had spent on furs for ex-Queen Geraldine and three ex-Princesses, his sisters. Ex-King Zog replied through his lawyers that he felt under no obligation to pay, since his ex-friends, the Italians, had taken the furs along...
Last year an emissary of ex-King Zog of the Albanians approached Mr. Gade with the object of installing the King in the chateau. It was suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity...
...fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...