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...British newspaper to be barred from Germany (in 1933). In the dark summer of 1940, the heads of the family knew that if Britain were invaded, their blacklisted paper would fall into Nazi hands. So they made Paul Patterson, president of the Baltimore Sun, a trustee and sent the deed to the property across the Atlantic for safekeeping. Patterson returned it last August, an occasion which seemed to the Guardian a proper time to redefine its goal: "It is simply an attempt to secure the fulfillment of C. P. Scott's aim that his newspapers should be carried...
Uncommon Man. Non-Reubens were also heard. "Damn the men who look back," cried OPAdministrator Paul Porter. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau stared fixedly into chaos. The Ohio C.I.O. Council wrung its hands over the "foulest deed . . . done by a wicked alliance of Northern reactionary Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...observer who has watched with increasing frustration the various emergency meetings, the extended world jaunt of Herbert Hoover, and the utter failure to act, this comes as a welcome appeal. For the member of the University it is more than an appeal, it is a challenge to express in deed his concepts of idealism...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...
...Quartet in E-flat Major, which even the most fervent Romanticist must realize is among fervent Romanticist must realize is among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight the otherwise lifeless Brahms B-flat Quartet...