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...fact that more Americans today appreciate and study "jazz" than 40-odd years ago when ragtime and jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with...
...that Rome would positively be defended was contradicted by Adolf Hitler's own newspaper. The Volkischer Beobachter declared-perhaps to prepare the home front for more bad news -that the retreat would continue to North Italy. The Vichy radio bleated: "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the conduct of the war except the prestige.. . . The German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only north of Rome at a place chosen by it. . . .' Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew the weaknesses of divided command as well as anyone...
Betrayal and Fulfillment. One of the rules Author Mumford learned from Sir Patrick Geddes was that man should lead a "balanced life." A balanced life consists in using every element in man to the full - but not to excess. Human history, according to Author Mumford, is the record of such attempts at balance...
...Bold Ones Shout. In war, as in peace, the peasants work their patches of land as best they can. No one calls it collective farming, but everyone helps his neighbor and contributes to the Army. The Partisan movement's strong Communist element, Communist Tito's connections with Moscow have not noticeably altered the ways of Yugoslav peasants...
...alone responsible for the jubilation of the Junior Ensigns. Theirs is the joy of accomplishment which the combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number 58-977, by force of habit...