Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Oswald Spengler, 55, famed German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...
...Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Though adding little grace to the fencers' postures, this device so successfully silenced the usual squawking over points that the U. S. Olympic fencing committee decided to take it to Berlin this summer. With it will go a team of 18 men and three women hopeful of capturing the U. S.'s first Olympic fencing championship...
...York's Mayor LaGuardia, in his capacity as President of the United States Conference of Mayors, recently refused to accept an invitation to a congress of the International Union of Local Authorities to be held next month at Berlin. He declined on the ground that "it would be a paradox to hold a conference on municipal government in a nation where local self-government has been obliterated." Mayor LaGuardia's refusal smacks more of a consistently biased opinion than any reasoned judgment...
...MacKennan, Gordon and Revel of Harvard's song-writing world, are quite pleased at being asked to join the famous ASCAP. As full fledged professionals (Mills Music, Inc. bought five of their Hasty Pudding songs) they can now join the society headed by such shining lights as Jerome Kern, Berlin, Gershwin, Walter Donaldson and others. Quite an honor, too, as well as being profitable. If the boys keep at it and keep turning out hits the way they've been doing they'll be drawing down big money soon. . . . Paging Brooks Bowman...