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Despite postwar losses of vast holdings in Communist Czechoslovakia, Franz Josef II is ranked among Europe's ten richest men. A grandnephew of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo ignited World War I, the alert, easygoing prince is also rated Liechtenstein's most popular monarch since Johannes the Good, who took the throne in 1858, reigned 71 years,* and spent an impressive $18 million of his personal fortune to build schools and roads in Liechtenstein. Though no one expected Franz Joseph to spend as much, loyal Liechtensteiners who crowded into the palace last week prayed lustily...
...nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. That challenge to church teaching has always been said to mark Luther's real break with Rome, and for more than 400 years Protestants have celebrated the anniversary of this clerical Sarajevo...
...when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...
Died. Archduchess Elizabeth Amalia of Habsburg, 81, mother of Prince Franz Josef II, who rules tiny (61.4 sq. mi., 13,757 pop.) Liechtenstein, niece of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and half-sister of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein...
...maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters. Hitler disagreed, called...