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Shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), 17-year-old Charles Leopold Hartmann left his native village of Nordheim, Alsace, and emigrated to the U. S. Of French sympathies, he did not wish to live in Alsace under German rule. At Hollister and Bakersfield, Calif, his affairs prospered so that he could make a trip back to his home town and see if he could find anyone who remembered him. Last month he set foot in Nordheim for the first time in 58 years, but everyone seemed to know who he was. Everybody he went to call...
...waiter in the Paris nightclub Chez Florence spilled hot gravy down the back of Dagmar Godowsky, cinemactress, daughter of Pianist Leopold Godowsky. When Mile Godowsky screamed her Argentinian escort rose, destroyed a bottle of champagne over the waiter's head, went to gaol...
...Paris, shaggy-browed Aristide Briand immediately sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...
...Leopold hung it over the great staircase at Schönbrunn where it remained, pride of the Habsburgs, until 1922 when it went to the Austrian State Museum. In 1925 it was sold to London tycoons to defray a deficit. Of it in the U. S. alone there are 2,000 copies...
Last September Dr. Leopold Heine of Kiel reported to the International Ophthalmological Congress at Amsterdam that for three years he had been prescribing contact glasses to correct sight defects. His report stimulated the New York demonstration last week...