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...White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest...
...Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay. The official reception at Vienna was delayed three hours by his tardiness. He danced at Baroncrest, was given a statue of Minerva, complained: "I seem to live in hotel lobbies and banquet...
...Budapest, Johann Schmidt, wealthy merchant, returned from a trip to Vienna, found a young man in his luxurious bed, clad in Herr Schmidt's luxurious pajamas, reading one of Herr Schmidt's books of philosophy. Herr Schmidt summoned police, who charged young Ferdinand Kovany with many housebreakings. Housebreaker Kovany's story: He had lost his good job. had to give up his fine apartment, now lived by casual work. Without rest he could not work. In a hard bed he could not res:. So each night he broke into a big house, slept in a soft...
Hungary had just been granted a new $25,000,000 international loan. The greater part of this came from Paris, and Budapest gossips kept repeating that France was demanding, first 11% on her money; second, the appointment of French officials as financial supervisors of Hungary; third, the leasing of the state railways; finally the resignation of Count Bethlen who has long been anti-French in policy, whose greatest coup was signing a virtual alliance with Benito Mussolini...
While all the bells of Budapest tolled, the right hand of St. Stephen was carried through the streets last week in the great process of St. Stephen's Day. Count Julius Karolyi in a gorgeous fur-trimmed noble's costume, followed it again, not as Custodian of the Crown but as Prime Minister...