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FRIEDRICH EXCELS-Gustav Mayer- Knopf...
...hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
...alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
...criticized First Symphony of Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting...
Sentenced, Gustav Lindquist, onetime insurance commissioner of Minnesota, and Abraham Karatz, onetime St. Paul lawyer, later a barker at Chicago's Century of Progress; to one to five years in Joliet penitentiary, fines of $1,000 each; for conspiring to loot Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co. (TIME...