AUSTRIA: Down Habsburg, Up Lipton

Peddling strings of Wienerwurst on the sidewalks of Vienna, selling life insurance, and finally keeping a grocery store, have been the occupations since 1918 of His Royal Highness the Archduke Leopold of Habsburg,* second cousin of Emperor Franz Josef.

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.

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