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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...
...Munich, Publisher Felix Buttersack moaned: "What shall I do?" Two hours after the polls closed, his newspaper, Merkur, had scooped Bavaria with the headline: THOMAS E. DEWEY-AMERICA'S NEW PRESiDENT.† Merkur carried a vivid account of how the victorious Governor Dewey had thanked the people in a radio address. Buttersack said he had simply trusted the polls. "What," added Felix Buttersack, "is Dr. Gallup going...
Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
...biggest turnouts of voters since the rise of Hitler, Germans in Bavaria and Hesse (U.S. zone) last week went to the polls to elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right...
...Mostly, people talk of going 'skiing' which means escaping over the mountains into Bavaria, or 'honeymooning' which means buying a husband (French, Italian, English or American) in order to get out of the country legally and take a few valuables with them...