People: People, Nov. 1, 1943

Royalty Ras Imru, Haile Selassie's first cousin and Ethiopia's hardest-fighting chieftain until the Italians captured him in 1936, headed home after nearly seven years' detention in Calabria. With him went his retinue of 16 (including a woman whose neck was tattooed blue).

Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, who with Mistress Magda has been trying off & on for two years to get into the U.S., hired a U.S. pressagent to give him a build-up as a democrat. The builder-upper: Manhattan's supersmart Russell Birdwell. Said a Birdwell associate: "The campaign hasn't been laid out yet." But to U.S. newspapers went the...

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