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...course the French Queen, King and courtiers were all hallucinations ? or were they? No one knows. Ludwig may have known that they did not exist, may have delighted only in pulling everyone's leg and in squeezing more money for his whims out of his Minister of "Finance than a sane king could ever have secured. Certain it is that he sometimes commanded lackeys to pick up objects which were not there, and, when they pretended to do so, caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made...
...Pinedo. Commander Francesco de Pinedo, famed flying Fascist, was forced last week to land on the Atlantic near the Azores Islands on the next-to-last leg of his 26,000-mile, four-continent flight. Premier Mussolini stayed up all night until he heard that Flyer de Pinedo's plane had been towed safely to Fayal, Azores. Soon Commander de Pinedo expects to hop to Rome and receive a long-delayed welcome...
Clairenore Stinnes (German steel heiress, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes) roared out of Frankfurt Germany, at the steering wheel of her specially built Adler automobile with two wirehaired fox terriors. She was headed for Constantinople, via the Balkans-the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall...
Last year he never quite reached his best times, but this was in a large measure due to a bothersome leg muscle injury which, while not serious, prevented consistent performances...
...Miller '27, Harvard's giant sprinter, pulled a leg muscle, and did well to collect a fifth place in the century...