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Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
...Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan, where mutual social circles brought him closer to Mrs. Brady, now a widow who spent her autumns in the U. S.. springs and summers in Italy, Carlsbad, England. Last summer "Bill" Macaulay, an unostentatiously "good"' Catholic, was in his third year as Minister to the Vatican and Mrs. Brady was living in Casa del Sole, the villa near the Vatican which Nicholas Brady' bought years ago. Minister Macaulay asked the woman who had become his friend...
There is a comedian named Bozo. Mere words cannot describe the pure gold that flows from his tongue sweeter than honey and more pithy than the cedars of Lebanon. Bozo is a character who must be seen to be believed. His mouth may be likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted...
Simultaneously in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia (once Austria-Hungary's Carlsbad), one Dr. Joerg Willenbacher published last week a monumental anthology of German Whispered Jokes...
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, having attended the birth of a son to her daughter (Princess Ileana) and Archduke Anton of Habsburg, was ready to leave Vienna for Carlsbad to discuss christening arrangements with Alfonso & Victoria of Spain. She suggested that her son-in-law Anton, able aviator, fly her there. The Archduke was in no mood to leave his wife and six-day-old son. But Mother-in-law Marie would entrust her life to no other pilot. Archduke Anton gave in, was further vexed by delay when his sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, lost...