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...Churchill launched his movement for a United Europe, Count Richard Couden-hove-Kalergi, a tireless Pan-Europist from the 1920s, summoned a group of European parliamentarians to discuss political unity, the European Union of Federalists urged Europe to "federate now." and in 1949 most of these groups came together to establish the Council of Europe. Skeptics refused to believe that anything practical would ever come of these idealistic and largely futile efforts. And yet the power of the ideal itself would not fade. Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga expressed it better than anyone else...
...rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series of nonsmash movies and a 1935 divorce-his third-from Actress Barbara Stanwyck, disappeared into impoverished near retirement until 1944, when Harvey brought him renewed fame and earnings of over...
Where federalism can lead is perhaps clearest at California's five Associated Colleges, this month renamed The Claremont Colleges. They started near Los Angeles in 1887 with coed Pomona, which in the 1920s decided to curb enrollment (now 1,085) by launching autonomous affiliates-Claremont University College (now 650 graduate students), Scripps (300 women), the postwar Claremont Men's College (450) and science-engineering Harvey Mudd College (230). On the group's 500 acres is room for seven more colleges...
That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as "jolly good," or "raw-ther." It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. "Trad" is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now in booming revival, and fans are streaming to hear it at stomp centers from Scotland's isle of Arran to an old dance hall on Eel Pie Island off Twickenham in the Thames, where Henry VIII once twitted his mistresses while eating the best eel pie in the kingdom. Bankers, clerks and beardless youths, secretaries, bus conductors, doctors, bricklayers, teachers-the traddists are a class...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...