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...Tempest, begged off, suggested Lukas Foss. He wrote the music in a month, based much of it (by request) on Sicilian folk tunes, turned in a remarkably workmanlike score. Archaic in mood, making deft use of a small orchestra, The Tempest reminded some listeners of Austria's late Gustav Mahler...
Meantime, in London the first scare-story appeared. Finland's Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim, 72, was reported gravely ill, watched over by personal physicians. The report was promptly denied...
Henry Villard bought The Nation in 1 88 1. Villard was a native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...
Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force...
...charge of the Choukoutien site (where digging has been seriously interfered with by the Sino-Japanese war) is an expatriate German Jew, Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Rockefeller-endowed Peiping Union Medical College. No. 1 man in Java is an expatriate German Gentile, Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Of late these earnest anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in each other's doings, and have tended to ignore the heterodox mutterings of old Dr. Dubois...