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...Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
...miles from Liberia the President turned up aboard a U.S. destroyer anchored in Brazil's winding Po-tengy River at Natal. There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this...
...Thirty-five times in little more than a month, British-based Wellingtons, Lancasters and Stirlings have fought their way through German planes over Occupied France and vaulted over the Alps to the Po Valley. At week's end, in the biggest raid yet, one group of bombers alone dropped 54 two-ton bombs and 55 tons of incendiaries in less than an hour on Turin. This was only a fraction of the total tonnage carried by an estimated 200 to 300 planes. Three were missing...
Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...
...Harvard summary: ab r h po a e Heath, lf 4 0 0 1 0 0 Fitz, 1b 4 0 0 15 0 0 Harvey, 2b 4 2 1 3 4 0 Fitzgibbons, cf 4 1 2 3 0 1 Barnes, rf 4 2 2 1 0 0 Gallagher, 3b 4 1 2 0 4 1 Drake, ss 4 0 1 3 5 0 Hamlen, c 4 0 3 1 0 0 Berg...