i.d '551 \: t — , • , t — . 11 Noel Aronovici Retires; Was JDC Reconstruction Head f • - ortr Biographer . Exposes Lupescu's Penials Moses A. Leavitt, executive uninterrupted service with JDC, vice-chairman of the Joint Dis- of Noel Aronovici, director of Elena Lupescu, generally re- tribution Committee, announces the JDC reconstruction depart- ferred to as Magda Lupescu, the retirement, after 37 years of ment. the sensational femme fatale whose marriage to King Carol of Romania was an international sensation, tried Passover Greetings to Our Friends and Patrons to deny her Jewishnes's: This is one of her many sha- dowy acts that Spaghetti - .pizza Pie - Southern Fried Chicken are exposed and c o n- demned in 21335 ECORSE in DEARBORN "Lupescu: The DUnkirk 1-9818 Story of a Royal Love Affair," by Alice - Leone Moats, pub- Season's Cordial Greetings lished by Hen- Lupescu ry Holt & Co. (383 Madison, NY 17). 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We learn . also that proofs of- fered—and accepted by Easter man—were: extraordinary re- Greetings and Best Wishes semblance between Carol's mis- tress and his sister, Elizabeth; Elena's (Magda's) education at a Catholic convent; Papa Lu- pescu's license to own a shop in spite of the discriminatory Full Line of Fresh Meats laws against Jews. Butter - Cheese - Eggs What's Lupescu's present an- swer? Miss Moat. states: "Now 3407 CANIFF TW 1-1200 that the Princess has taken up petmanent residence outside of Romania, she has less reason to reject her ancestors, a n d when a friend was indiscreet Greetings on the Holiday enough to inquire how much Jewish blood she had, she an- swered, am not one tenth.'" 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