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...overruled the commanding general of the 8th Mountain Division, who had told correspondents: "She will not go to Konitsa. She may be queen, but I am king up here." Frederika was the first to cross the shell-blasted bridge to Konitsa after the engineers had repaired...
Finally General Michael Andonopoulos, commanding the 8th Mountain Division, sent a detachment up to Konitsa by a mule track. This force, pushing through a thin screen of snipers, got into the town across an old Turkish bridge. Thus Konitsa was reinforced by 2,000 men. Ebullient government communiqués claimed that the "routed" rebels were fleeing north into Albania and east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn...
...Bogalusa, La., who had completed his theological training at Bilbo's expense, preached the sermon. He took his text from Second Timothy, fourth chapter, 7th and 8th verses: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith...
...Faris el Khoury brought in some dubious history to deny their connection with Palestine. "Who are the Jews of eastern Europe?" he asked. "They are Mongols who were near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that the Jews would kill themselves rather than give up their faith. So he set up Judaism...
...only from a musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano and Zurich before going to France. He concentrates on a young man's program (Schubert 8th, Beethoven 1st) and although I had no chance to see or hear him, I was very reliably informed that he conducted it very well...