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...King's bed last week George II looked up at the Roman-nosed ancestors of Vittorio Emanuele III cut in the ceiling frieze. He ate spaghetti in the grande Salone da pranzo at a royal banquet table seating 20. By touching a button near his bedside telephone George II could connect himself with either of the royal parlors, or the Queen's intimate and exquisite camera da letto di Sua Maesta la Regina- although last week there was no Queen aboard...
...Spain's Murcia Province 6,000 citizens ate bread made from flour containing powdered lead, whereupon 6,000 stomachs churned, 12,000 legs grew numb. The flour distributor, one Jose Merono Olmos, was held in $35,000 bail, tentatively assessed $70,000 damages...
...Bello Horizonte, Brazil, after baking a cake for what she thought was her 115th birthday, Euflasina Maria died. Next day five of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren ate the cake, followed Euflasina Maria...
...were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed "Strength Through Joy League" the garlic-flavored sausages joyously washed down with golden beer are of horsemeat. enriched with...
...Prime Minister has to call officially in Washington. Last week both occurred. The $7,500 jewels stolen from Princess Maria of Bourbon-Sicily, bride of Prince Juan of Spain, held press attention until the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King actually stood on the White House doormat, ate from the White House dishes, slept in a White House bed. "I thought it would be a pleasant thing," said Mr. King, "to pay a courtesy call upon your President." That was a magnificent understatement. What the new-Canadian Premier assuredly thought would be a "pleasant thing" was to do something that...