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Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...
...money to run out. In the next apartment house Mr. Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with his gold-digging mistress. Fellow-lodgers were Andre Franconi, impeccable barber, suffering in silence his earned reputation of irresistible ladies' man, slowly dying from incurable syphilis; the Otto Drollingers, pseudo-intelligentsia, who played at being Russians and called themselves Vanya & Natasha. In a nearby basement a learned, demented printer worked feverishly on his endless history, left his work sporadically to dash out around Union Square, scattering neatly printed cards of warning and doom. In the Square every day were...
...Jackson '98, E. R. James, T. L. Kelly, F. L. Kennedy '92, C. W. Killam, A. B. Lamb, W. W. Leontief, F. W. C. Lieder, Calvert Magruder, F. O. Matthiessen, J. A. McLaughlin, H. R. Mimno, A. E. Monroe '08, F. G. Nichols, R. G. Noyes, Otto Oldenberg, Charles Palache, G. H. Parker, Milman Parry, A. S. Pease '02, Henry Pennypacker '88, W. W. Perkins '22, R. H. Pfeiffer, E. K. Rand '94, P. E. Raymond, B. L. Robinson, Daniel Sargent, George Sarton, W. E. Schevill '27, H. M. Sheffer '05, P. A. Sorokin, T. E. Sterne, J. B. Thayer...
...puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
...League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary...