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...friends of Jimmy Conzelman were not sure what "normal" would prove to be. In the last 30 years his recreations had included such items as flame dives from the high board. He was also an actor (Good News), a record-making ukulele player, author of Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit...
When young William Purcell Witcutt was studying for the Anglican ministry some 20 years ago, he met Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month...
...subject in question was one of the 19th Century's standard true-life romantic mysteries-the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, in 1889. But Author Lonyay (whose princely uncle later married Rudolph's widow) has had access to family accounts never published before; and by the time he has cut his brash trooper's path through the great romance, not all the Charles Boyers, Danielle Darrieuxs and Hollywood directors could put it together again...
Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
Rudolph's father, Emperor Franz Joseph, had only two interests as Author Lonyay sees it: 1) to design new buttons for his army's uniforms; 2) to design new agreements he had no great intention of keeping ("I cannot get the All-highest gentleman out of the habit of telling lies," his comptroller complained...