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...design coincided roughly with the high point of Victorian morality, but even the recent revival has been almost entirely an eclectic re-creation of Gothic, Byzantine, or Christopher Wren inspirations. Only in the past few years, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Community Church for Kansas City, the Albert Hoffmann-designed St. Peter Claver Mission (Negro Catholic) at Montclair, N. J., the modern Catholic churches of Barry Byrne, a sprinkling of others, has the Church moved to resume its ancient place as the patron of creative architecture...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...
...goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...
Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...