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With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
...musicians learn as children. For years Berlioz scraped along on next to no money. He had a few pupils to whom he taught singing, flute, guitar. He sang evenings in the chorus of a second-class theatre, ate his meals of dry bread and raisins at the base of Henri IV's statue-all so that he could study at the Conservatoire. Conservatoire students were supposed to bow down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments...
...Paris, to which the French brought him when he was nine years old, jolly little Bao Dai tried his best to learn everything, mastered modern languages and mathematics, took tennis lessons from Henri Cochet, learned from stern French cavalry tutors to jump a horse. In the end His Majesty came to excel at ping pong...
Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...Love joy, professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University; Robert Cedric Binkley, acting professor of History at Western Reserve University; Jose Frederico Normane, of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in South America; Serge Elisseeff, formerly professor in the Institute for the History of Foreign Affairs in Petrograd; and Henri Guy, rector of the University of Grenoble...