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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maestro Toscanini apparently had become a Lucerne fixture: he rented a chalet on the lake, began building a permanent home there, was made an honorary citizen of the town. Last summer Toscanini saluted another musician who once lived on Lake Lucerne. In Richard Wagner's garden, Toscanini "reconstructed" the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll, which was a serenade to Wagner's mistress and wife-to-be, Cosima...
Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...
When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...
...shoot and play with the pickaninnies. A half-demented old family retainer taught her to read: by twelve she knew Shakespeare, Scott and Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...