*There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!* [*Vicki Baum*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/389468.Vicki_Baum?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Shortly after writing her internationally bestselling Grand Hotel, Austrian novelist Vicki Baum (born January 24, 1888) took up boxing. She trained with Turkish prizefighter Sabri Mahir and sparred with both men and women.