RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed

Slimmer than most sylphs is Austria's fragile Fraulein Lisl Goldarbeiter, recently crowned "Miss Universe" by Galveston,

Tex., judges (TIME, June 24). Hard-boiled correspondents had to grope for adjectives to describe her famed "air of ethereal purity."

Rumanians are an earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give...

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