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John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., Nov. 6, 1854. His father was a Spaniard of Portuguese descent who served in the U. S. Navy. His mother was born in the U. S. of Bavarian parents. Sousa was a most patriotic American. I knew him from the time I was 13 years of age until the day of his death, when he was a guest at my home...
...Munich magnetic Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner, warming up the multitude before Der Führer's arrival, thundered: "What Adolf Hitler has done is and remains right into all eternity. It is right because it has profited the German people, and whatever profits the German people profits the entire world...
...tiny Bavarian towns of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where winter makes the little houses look like gingerbread and sugar, the eleven days of skiing, skating, hockey, bobsledding, which compose the Fourth Winter Olympic Games, ended last week...
Sixty miles southwest of Munich, on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, lie the twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself...
...papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...