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...Jose Iturbi pondered an invitation to direct the Palestine Symphony next summer. Among the inducements: transportation by R.A.F. bomber; "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with marvelous acoustics...
...Henry Kaiser, he helped to plan the West Coast concern. An Austrian citizen, he was high on the FBI roundup list as an enemy national employed in confidential U.S. defense work. At week's end he was still in the protective custody of the county sheriff in San Jose, but was allowed to attend Permanente production conferences...
Then right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had a blackout, and the Army announced that two squadrons of 15 enemy planes each from a carrier off the coast had flown inland over California soil near San Jose. One squadron flew south and vanished, the second flew northward past San Francisco and Mare Island...
...wedding of the 1930 season took place in Rome. Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, glamor boy extraordinary, was marrying Belgian Princess Marie-Jose. Standing in the Pauline Chapel of the royal palace during the ceremony was another glamor boy, a little gloomy, but slightly angelic with the light catching his golden hair. He was Leopold III, Crown Prince of the Belgians, already married three years to Swedish Princess Astrid...
Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...