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...Farewell. The travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...
Thus Does a Beggar. . .In Savannah, sensitive city officials felt compelled to announce that local fishermen would have to stop digging for worms in the cemetery...
...Rome passers-by heard a beggar cry: "Just for a few days more, please. After April 18, I will never need anything again." A good many Italians felt like the beggar, but they were wrong. A Communist defeat would not settle Italy's problems or eliminate the Communists from the Italian scene. It would merely give the West and Alcide de Gasperi a reprieve, another chance to do better...
...beggar's name was Stephen Blau. He came from Austria during World War I. He opened a bazaar, buying & selling old paintings, stamps, clothes. For a time he did well, and at the peak of his prosperity represented Austria as honorary consul. Then he ran into hard times. In 1926 he closed his business, leaving 28 sealed boxes in pawn for the $5 he owed his landlady, and started peddling pencils...
...northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...