Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman lost his wallet. It was found in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, returned with its money to his office. Next day, although the finders' recollections of its contents had been revised upward from $500 to "nearly $700," the archbishop said that there had really been only $30 in the wallet. To reporters who wondered how he had continued his travels without money, he told no secrets.
Archduke Otto of Austria, whose proposal for a U.S. Army battalion of Austrian nationals was finally nixed by both the Army and the State...
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