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...intrigue, inspired by a gypsy prophecy, which helped make Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where...
...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...
...that there was any dearth of trappings. The town swarmed with Cabinet officers, Administration czars and such exhausted sparks of former party glory as Indiana's Paul McNutt. There was bunting in the streets and bourbon on the table. Democratic headquarters passed out Victory Kits containing whistles, Truman buttons, cigarette lighters. A papier mache donkey-which shook its head and flashed its eyes-was set up on the marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel to replace the Republican's sausagey balloon-rubber elephant...
Biffle got the news on the Bellevue roof, exploded with surprise, put down his bourbon and water and bolted for his third-floor room. There he rounded up Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas and Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon. They held a quick council of war. Cried McMahon: "What profit is it to the party if we nominate Douglas to pick up a few congressional seats in The Bronx and then see a second Democratic Convention convening in ten days in Richmond...
...show. Prosperity, heat, the feel of victory and the Derby Day jockeying of the candidates gave Philadelphia the look and sound of a midway. The tabloid New York Daily News suggested that its atmosphere could be sampled by remote control simply by "swallowing a snort of bourbon, lighting a cigarette, putting scented talcum powder on a damp baby and inhaling...