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...training were carried out it would take 17 years to train the required number of [mechanized Army] specialists, but present conditions do not admit of this leisurely, though ideal, method." By rush methods 100,000 men will be trained in 1933-34. Another shock of the week was a sudden announcement by Tokyo police that they had caught four men red-handed in a plot to assassinate Premier Viscount Makoto Saito. Was there perhaps something strange about this? There was. The four men were caught not last week but last August. News of their plot was hushed by the Government...
...century. Boston. New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Baltimore subside 3.5 to 11.5 in. a century. Key West seems stationary. The rises & falls seem to be rhythmic. Boston, now sinking, was on the up between 1847 and 1876, with most of the elevation gained between 1857 & 1858. The sudden gain, surmises Dr. William Fitch Cheney Jr. (Connecticut Agricultural College), was related to the Naples earthquake of 1857. Charleston had an earthquake in 1886 which may account for the movements at Charleston and Baltimore...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes...
...pale young Hungarian violinist playing in the orchestra at Manhattan's Capitol cinemansion, applied to Conductor Willem Mengelberg for the job of assistant concertmaster with the New York Philharmonic, was refused. The refusal proved fortunate for young Eugene (English for Jeno) Ormandy. Not long afterwards the sudden illness of the Capitol conductor gave Ormandy a chance to show that he could conduct Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony from memory. Eugene Ormandy was leading a radio orchestra when he was called upon last year to pinch-hit for Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose glass arm kept him from leading the Philadelphia...
...sudden lift of the curtain, the harsh blare of the brasses establish perfectly the mood for Elektra's maniacal lust to avenge the death of her father Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until...