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...public pressure, of which there is plenty, Premier Hansson's and the King's decision to play the neutral game to its logical and perhaps tragic end seemed to mean taps for independent Finland. Norway was much too agitated about the Nazi-British battle over the Alt-mark last week (see p. 34) to think much about Finland. Denmark has no army to speak...
...trial in U. S. District Court in Danville, Ill. last week were Maude Ault, now a plump matron of 48, and 29-year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason...
Dragged to Danville to testify, Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made his first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless...
...York last week, the sailing of the S. S. Manhattan was delayed for more than half an hour by the business of hoisting the white Olympic flag, ornamented by five interlocking red, blue, black, yellow and green circles and the motto Citius, Alt ins, For tins (faster, higher, stronger). Attending this ceremony were 45 members of the U. S. team of 79, sailing to compete this year in the Fourth Winter Olympic Games next month at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Their departure was the most important sports news of the week...