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Doubts. The politically-torn population soon faced the terrifying ordeal of hunger and air raids. By last autumn many an ardent antiFascist, his belly gnawed by hunger and his nerves frayed by bombs, began to wonder if, after all, the oppression of Fascism could be any worse. When, three days before Barcelona fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers...
...glad-eyed by the Protestant Episcopal Church, which officially avowed its desire "to achieve organic union." Last spring, the Presbyterian Church murmured its "yes," and commissions set about drawing up a marriage agreement (TIME, June 6). For purposes of discussion, an agreement was published last autumn. By last week, when a Presbyterian-Episcopal conference was held in Buffalo, the wooing had reached such a pitch that Editor Stewart MacMaster Robinson of The Presbyterian declared: "Ecclesiastical love-making must not make us forget the unsaved world...
...Last autumn Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society gave its $1,000 annual prize "for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer" to blond-mustached David Van Vactor of Evanston, Ill. Last week Composer Van Vactor conducted his prize-winning Symphony in D at a Philharmonic concert in Carnegie Hall, a piece of sound musical grammar & syntax, with considerable Sibelius influence. Incidentally, it made critics wonder again at the complete anarchy of the music market. Sample prices paid other composers : Schubert for his song Die Post: 20?; Frank Silver, for his and Irving Conn...
Before he accepted. Dr. Sigerist carefully explored the great medical centres of New York City, Chicago. Boston. Philadelphia, San Francisco and institutions in smaller towns. He studied history, economics and folkways, wrote home poetic letters on the bright beauty of New England autumn, the "whiplash" of Colorado winds. He found the U. S. "a great world, a gigantic historical process, strange and alluring," and felt that medicine's centre of gravity was shifting from Germany to the U. S. So he finally decided to settle down at Hopkins...
With the reduction of Czecho-Slovakia last autumn to a German puppet state forced to do Nazi Germany's bidding, the real frontiers of Germany were moved 300 miles eastward. They now touch Rumania, front on Polish Ukrainian districts, reach within 90 miles of the Soviet Union...