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Beethoven: Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp Minor (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides; $5.50). Among Beethoven's last and loftiest musings, faultlessly recaptured by the Budapesters...
...when George Washington was preparing to retire, he gave as one of his reasons "a disinclination to be longer buffeted in the public prints by a set of infamous scribblers." Even Thomas Jefferson, loftiest defender of civil liberties, said, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper." But the press of 1807 was not the press of 1940. U. S. newspapers in Jefferson's day were mostly organs of partisan vituperation and vilification owned or subsidized by political leaders. The partisanship of the press in the campaign of 1940 was mostly of another order...
...must to all men, death came last week to the youngest, most thoroughgoing dictator in the Western Hemisphere. At La Paz, loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors...
Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
With the news that a citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, has decided it would be a good thing to settle the flood and drought problem through the production of artificial glaciers, the issue of what to do with snow again comes squarely before the American public, from the loftiest to the lowliest, the wisest to the dullest citizen...