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...State Opera company. They paid its casts handsomely and footed the bills for the best in costumes and scenery. Since performers and listeners had no trouble crossing sectors, the State Opera quickly restored its name as Berlin's first company. Now the Russians are even rebuilding the Unter den Linden theater, and providing it with a stage fully equipped for all the massive magnificence that Germans love...
...ranking first in his class at Nürnberg Technical High School. Last week the school standings listed Joseph in second place. Dejected, he walked out of the class. Next morning he cycled to the Nürnberg zoo, climbed over the brick wall into the lions' den. The lions ignored him, so he splashed them with water...
...north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the Northerners. On the afternoon of July 3, Major General George E. Pickett led 15,000 Confederates on a gallant but ill-advised charge into the teeth...
When Holden steps into his den, its walls and floors covered with handsome futuristic designs, and murmurs, "This has been the only thing that has kept me going," one suddenly feels an overwhelming aversion to modern design. When Holden shouts inscrutable formulae and numbers into a telephone, one sickens of enlightened science and engineering. When Holden's loyal employees crowd around him to seek advice and solace, one longs for the Marley-Scrooge days when employees knew their place. When Holden orates about the necessity for expansion and research in modern industry, one feels a quick sympathy for William McKinley...
...Crump, John Hartwell, Fred Scharf, Paul Jones, and Pat Esmiol will share the defense work and Steve Den Hartog will start in the goal...