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...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...Austria, Hungary, Bohemia-Moravia, Poland, Rumania (blithely overlooking well-intrenched Carol II) and Yugoslavia (overlooking the Habsburg-hating Serbs, who touched off World War I by murdering Otto's granduncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand). Otto places great hopes for backing in the U. S., where his unimposing brother Archduke Felix has been propagandizing his cause since last November...
...whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...
Famed is Colonel Apted's stern "Break it up, boys!" Famed also are some of his great & good friends: Felix Frankfurter, Joseph Kennedy, Robert Benchley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and "all his damn kids...
Future Sol Blooms should have no trouble finding the graves of Bill Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, et al. For, unlike those forgotten Justices of the Court's early days, the Olympians over whom Charles Evans Hughes presides have indeed made history...