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Incorrigibly cheerful, commendably self supporting, the imperially blooded grocer calls himself merely "Herr Leopold Wolfling." Last week he admitted that as a grocer he is practically a bankrupt, has saved the situation only by writing his memoirs, with the tragicomic title From Archduke to Grocer...
...gossip, but dug out one sprightly passage of present and international interest. "It diverts me, after the flight of years," writes cheerful Leopold of Habsburg, "to contrast the career of Sir Thomas Lipton with mine. While he shot up the social ladder I shot down. He, the one time grocer, was soon to mix in royal circles on flattering, if not on almost equal, terms, whereas I, the one time royal personage, ultimately became a grocer...
...Past. The daughter of a Russian Jew buttonhole maker in Manhattan's lower East Side slums, Ruth Laeger, sexually precocious at 8, had been raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her continued relations with this man. She spent a year in a reformatory, left with a very bad behavior record. She worked as a department store salesgirl, was arrested for stealing merchandise, received a suspended sentence. Two months later she repeated her offense, went to prison. Released on parole, she consorted with...
Vacuum. Reputedly the oldest of oil companies in existence, Vacuum was founded in 1866, seven years after the first commercial production of petroleum, by Matthew Ewing, inventor, and Hiram B. Everest, grocer, on the basis of a vacuum distillation process which Mr. Ewing maintained could turn petroleum 100% into kerosene. This was a valuable claim because the lighter distillations, such as are used for gasoline, were in those days dumped into rivers as waste-products. When the process failed, Mr. Ewing dropped out, but Mr. Everest developed Vacuum Harness Oil, sold it in second-hand oyster cans...
...though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life" to emphasize the idyll...