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...Reason for including it in a Mozart Festival: its libretto, like that of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, is based on one of the pair of comedies by Pierre Aupustin Car de Beaumarchais...
...addition, heavy-set Gates W. Mc-Garrah, president of the Bank for International Settlements, is one of Mr. Wiggin's old friends. Often have they dined, motored, played golf together. Together they present the perfect embodiment of a pair of U. S. bankers as an anti-capitalist cartoonist would draw them. But about their minds, of course, there is nothing cartoonish. Nor are they hereditary exponents of Capitalism, but self-made representatives and leaders of a system in which all their countrymen have a stake...
...Irondale, 10 mi. from Birmingham, two whites shot two blacks from the top of a passing box car. One Negro died. In Birmingham, a Negro was dragged out of his home by two whites, led two blocks up the street and shot in the back of the neck. Another pair of white men. in the city's suburbs, shot another negro...
...years the true story of their deaths has been one of the greatest European mysteries, a delight to novelists and playwrights. There were dozens of versions: Rudolf committed suicide. The pair were killed by a jealous husband. It was a political murder inspired by the Czechs, the Poles or one of the other minorities fighting for state's rights. Members of the Vetsera family murdered...
...Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair had their first look at the wilderness over which they must fly on most of their course. Followed by flying newshawks, they spent a night at Moose Factory, remote outpost at the lower tip of Hudson's Bay; flew on to Churchill, Canada's booming northern grain port...