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...music-wise will welcome the return of Walter, eagerly await what he may do with a worthy orchestra. That he is a serious, sincere musician was proved at the beginning of his career when his name was Schlesinger. He conducted a performance of Die Meistersinger and Felix Weingartner, his superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once...
Unwilling to await the Navy's decision, lay observers awarded the victory to the Blue forces whose aircraft had so damaged the Black ships that no effective landing was possible. Admiral Schofield's transports had been cut to bits; the decks of his battleships were shambles from air-bombs; his cruisers were barely afloat...
Whatever "verdict" the Yale delegation returns, its effect will be of enormous assistance in crystallizing the opinions of the entire university. We eagerly await the results. --Yale News...
...made the first flight from Europe to South America. In happy contrast to the misfortune-dogged jumps from Switzerland to Lisbon, last week's 715-1111. flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands was well-favored by wind & weather, uneventful. There it was held again to await good weather for the next jumps to the Cape Verde Islands (845 mi.), to Fernando Noronha (1,429 mi.) and to Natal...
...asks Chief Travers, "could Constance be guarded from harm? . . . How easy for a desperate criminal to masquerade as a reporter or photographer and await his chance to mutilate or kill a member of the family. . . . There was one obvious solution, and Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow chose to adopt it. Late on Monday, May 27, 1929. a laconic announcement was issued [that they] had been married and had left on their honeymoon. . . . The siege of the Morrow estate [was] lifted. Detectives now were able to guard Constance Morrow efficiently...