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...hooted by the city's children, and left $15,000 to one moppet who did not hoot; "The Great Unknown," an insane dandy in frock coat and varnished boots who never looked at or spoke to anyone; "Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved of all was Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...
...must be falsely datelined so as to seem to have come from Italy. For the big show 3,000 picked Fascist militia were mobilized in Venice by steel-muscled, pantherlike Secretary of the Party Achille Starace and 80 bulging German detectives shook Venice's Grand Hotel with the tramp, tramp of their arrival. Paying guests were vexed as these Teuton sleuths commanded "Stay in your rooms this morning or leave the hotel. Every corridor must be empty when Der Fiihrer arrives." Sharp at 9:45 a. m. Il Duce was at Lido Airport in his favorite grey-green uniform...
...Marguerite Henriot, 19-year-old cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot, was found murdered in her garden at Lorient Police suspect a passing tramp...
...dragging the pageant of a bleading heart across Europe," will out with Shelley and Byron. Here is the simple case of an elderly utilities man and holding company magnet who "hit for the boiler" when things began to get to warm. For all the court intrigues,Greek women, tramp steamers, (but not even an airplane) it is evident that Insull himself is not a romantic person, such as some old Stuart Pretender or Confederate General. It is probable that the sympathy which he is getting in Chicago marks the surfeit of investigations, mud-slinging threats, and big-banker circuses...
Little did he know that that morning the 46-year-old tramp S. S. Maiotis with Brother Samuel as its only passenger had cleared the Dardanelles, barged up the Sea of Marmora and dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...