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...detractors. Mexico City's stiff-necked, nationalist Old Guard, who do not or will not see the satire in his act, loathe him as the leader of "the barbarian invasion from the North." Nevertheless, Tin Tan today is not only the wonder boy of the Folies Bergere, but a headliner at the swanky, touristy El Patio, a regular over Mexico's powerful radio station XEW, and has contracts in his pocket to tour Latin America and star in three cinemusicals...
...Bell, speaking in Britain's House of Lords, deplored the bombing of German cities. "I am not for getting the Luftwaffe's tremendous bombing of Belgrade, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Portsmouth, Coventry, Canterbury and other places of military, industrial and cultural importance. But Hitler is a barbarian. There is no decent person on the Allied side who thinks we should make him our pattern or attempt to beat competitors at that market." The Bishop feared that the R.A.F. bombings would bring Britain a "harvest of hate," and impede postwar relations. And did the R.A.F...
...Record. The first Teutonic conqueror of Rome was the ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged...
Thine Own City. The great Byzantine general, Belisarius, more than once defended Rome against Teuton raids. To a barbarian chief he wrote a letter that is still timely...
Nevertheless, barbarian that he is, he's right. Look at the state of Harvard today. Babies in the Yard can be born, or even clotheslines, after all, e'est laguerre. But ask a Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman...