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...Serbia, elder brother of assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia, had the reputation of being the most violent member of a most violent race. He stuck out his tongue at diplomats, killed a servant with a kick, heaved bottles at the windows of Serbia's late great Premier Nikola Pashitch. In 1923 he was declared insane, has since lived in seclusion with his guards, his physician, a succession of girl friends for sparring partners...
Abandoning his 33rd floor aerie (in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel) as well as his customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...
Awarded. To Nikola Tesla, famed Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...
...Manhattan it was revealed that since last autumn Nikola Tesla, 80, eccentric, Lika-born electrical inventor, had been paying Western Union to send a messenger boy to the Public Library promenade twice daily, scatter 5 Ib. of corn for the pigeons...
...Octani, Rumania, Nikola Stepan gave a great feast to celebrate the absence of his wife. When the wife failed to return his guests investigated, learned that Nikola Stepan had killed his wife, then cooked and served her for the feast...