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...among the Ruins. Gaiety tried to make a brave comeback in another once gay city. The center of Munich, one of the most beautiful of Europe's medieval monuments, is a heap of bombed rubble, but last week Müncheners eagerly jumped aboard bicycles, cars and trains bound to suburban Riems. Reason: horse racing was back. The scene at the track was almost like old days. The horses' names had been changed to others more in keeping with the spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become...
...first managing editor of the Daily News, wanted his son to be a diplomat. When Dick Clarke finished Hackley School, his father packed him off to Europe for a year, told his tutor to see that he did not read or speak a word of English. Clarke studied at Munich and Grenoble, spent three years at Harvard, got a "war degree" after World...
...Lake Success, L.I., delegates heard with alarm loud Russian cries of "Munich!" During the debate on Greek policy and the presence of British troops in Greece, Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky rose to shout that he had been accused of "propaganda aims." Said he: "In the light of the experience which we have lived through, we now know that behind all this noise about propaganda was concealed a preparation of an aggressive war. ... It would seem little likely, but it is a fact, that the shadows of Munich are rising again. ... A wall of votes against the Soviet Union is being...
...Munich, Regensburg and Heidelberg, Army recruiting offices posted signs in five languages informing persistent hungry, ill-clothed Germans and D.P.s that only U.S. citizens are eligible for the well-fed, well-dressed U.S. Army...
Masters Missing. Stars of Salzburg's great days like Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter had refused invitations to perform. Instead the opening-night audience listened to 6 ft. 2 in. Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that...