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...years Anthony J. Buttitta of Bizerta, Tunis, has been striving for a literary renaissance at Chapel Hill, N. C., where every three weeks he publishes Contempo. Contempo's editor considers his magazine ''an asylum for aggrieved authors," a paper dedicated to ''the reception of new ideas."' No contributions are paid for, but manuscripts have found their way to Editor Buttitta's offices from many a famed U. S. writer, including William Faulkner. Malcolm Cowley, Countee Cullen, Michael Gold, Sinclair Lewis, Lynn Riggs, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens...
...explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably...
...religiously fanatical, had Carry baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form of megalomania. She was incorrigibly bossy, inherently destructive...
...down Germany the question flashed last week: Had Adolf Hitler at last gone crazy? Had his nerves given way? Was he really in a straitjacket, jittering in a Bavarian asylum? He was not. Handsome Adolf was actually high in the Bavarian Alps with a few intimate friends, slowly flailing the chalky waters of mountain streams for speckled brown trout which his quiet sister boiled till blue and served on lettuce leaves for the Hitler supper. Even so the lunacy legend kept the chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry...
...Japanese Government is building a simple, square-towered Parliament not far from the low, buff-colored wooden Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign...