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...ardent royalist, a beautiful dark-haired girl, one of the few women in Hungary's Parliament, the Princess Klara Odescalchi. For years the Princess Klara has been a fanatical opponent of Count Bethlen who, she believes, has persistently refused to allow the enthronement of 18-year-old Archduke Otto upon the vacant throne of Hungary. What makes her a dangerous opponent is that she is wealthy and can use her wealth to great political advantage. She is intelligent, she has had long training in European intrigue. Her father is the great Count Julius Andrassy, onetime Foreign Secretary...
Grouse too are scarce. Chief grouse student at the conference was Professor Alfred Otto Gross, Bowdoin biologist. Some 30 insects infest grouse; study of the conditions which favor these parasites may reveal a cycle upon which to base conservation laws. Cornell University has done much good grouse study...
John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample...
...Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, Eskimo Otto Knudsen saw his first cinema, went violently cinemad. Several powerful companions had to hold down, strap to a steamer bunk and convey to Copenhagen for treatment Eskimo Otto Knudsen...
arrived in Manhattan and disclosed that Hendrik Willem Van Loon Jr., a resident of Paris, is going to become an interpretative dancer. Said Father Van Loon: "It was hard to learn of this." But he said he told his son: "Otto Kahn let his son [Roger Wolff] do as he wished [lead bands, fly airplanes] and so I'll let you do as you wish, and become an interpretative dancer...