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...promptly proved his worth by storming Vienna and conquering two rich Austrian duchies for himself. His latest descendant is not so bold. Banished when his father Karl I was toppled from power after World War I, the current pretender to the throne of Austria-Hungary last week came home to his domains as plain...
Inconspicuous as it was, Otto's return brought a shrill outcry from the Austrian Socialist Party, which sponsored a three-hour strike by some 250,000 Austrian production and office workers, and then blamed "the unrest caused by Otto Habsburg's provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors...
German expressionists, too, are supposed to be historical relics these days. Take Oskar Kokoschka, for example. In pre-World War I Prague, they gleefully translated his Czech name literally-"bad weed." Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination helped spark World War I, once growled, "That fellow's bones ought to be broken." He wrote plays that people called mad, but mainly he painted pictures that few people liked. Hitler unhesitatingly banned him as "degenerate." Kokoschka cheerfully outlived them all; today, at 80, he is more generative than ever...
Married. Senta Berger, 25, Austrian starlet, the tastiest thing in Bang! Bang! You're Dead.'; and Dr. Michael Verhoeven, 28, a pediatrician; both for the first time; in Munich...
...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...