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...hotels bordering the Lake of Geneva where he took a bath, ate a hearty breakfast, sallied forth with a group of swank friends to do a little shopping. Then the Prince vexed the peace devotees of Geneva by getting aboard his special train, chuffing off to Budapest...
Next day the royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...
With this in mind, Budapest authorities cautioned all Hungarian newsorgans in advance last week, forbade Hungarian photographers to trail H. R. H. in night haunts and issued a general admonition: ''If one sees the Prince dining in a restaurant, keep your head lowered. Do not stare." These precautions having been taken, Budapest reporters who covered H. R. H. & friends this week limited themselves to stating that he shot wild boars with the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya...
...this time, a small goitre, which she called her "potato," had made its appearance on her throat, severely cutting down her respiration. However, she started on a European tour, reduced her price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying...
...Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...