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...prepare himself spiritually for his grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger...
...sports writers rate athletes by selecting allstar teams. The current issue of the U. S. Infantry Journal, in an article by George L. Simpson, lieutenant colonel of Field Artillery, presents an extraordinary slant on world military history by picking an allstar, alltime, all-nation army corps command. Selections...
...capture of Belchite, in spite of the fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This, the most elaborate Leftist offensive yet attempted, was handed over to General Sebastian Pozas...
...prestige of that victory helped win for Premier van Zeeland unofficial command of the expanded Oslo Group of nations (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland) and three months ago he went to the U. S. to present to President Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
Upon charges by the Guild that the older union had failed to unionize the opera field, the A.A.A.A. announced a hearing in the Manhattan headquarters of Actors Equity Association. Furious, aware that the skids were already greased for their union, the Grand Opera Artists' high command, led by a Hippodrome baritonfe named Giuseppe Interrante, held a mas|; meeting in Steinway Hall. Star speaker was not a worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected...