Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909 began sending out invitations last month to 1909's 25th Reunion in June he came upon the name Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. Few Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers...
...Died. Franz Cardinal Ehrle, 88, oldest member of the College of Cardinals, longtime Vatican librarian; of pneumonia; in Rome...
...insanity, there are at least 35 Habsburg princelings living. The most stupidly reactionary family in Europe, they are for the most part either dissolute or fanatically Catholic, but to those who do not know them they represent the glories and the comforts of a vanished era. Sad old Franz Josef I died in 1916 without male issue after his only son Rudolf had been mysteriously killed at Meyerling in 1889. The throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz...
...other possible pretender to the Habsburg throne (but of Hungary only) is the Archduke Albrecht, great-grandson of the brother of Franz Josef's grandfather. His claims, remote though they seem, are based on the fact that since the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary is theoretically free to choose any King she wants, and both branches of his family have lived in Hungary for at least two generations. Unfortunately for the schemes of Albrecht's mother, the Archduchess Isabella, who died in 1931, Albrecht renounced his rights four years ago (TIME, June...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...