Word: blitzkriegers
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...famed Ringstrasse was last week renamed "Josef Bürckel Ring," Hitler selected a particularly luscious cherry from his political pie-poetic, youth-loving Baldur von Schirach, who last September publicly begged his Führer's permission to leave his job as Reich Youth Leader to help blitzkrieg France, returned last month with an Iron Cross and lieutenancy...
...Adolf Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
Swearing his Columbia colleagues to secrecy, Mr. Wallerstein planned his campaign as carefully as a Blitzkrieg. Last week, out of a clear sky, President Wallerstein made his dramatic announcement: that Columbia's entire classical list (old releases as well as new ones) was now on sale at half price. To profit by the change, Columbia plans to sell three times as many classical records as it had sold before. Wallerstein has readied his Bridgeport, Conn, plant for three times its normal production...
...months ago, when Hitler's Blitzkrieg rolled into Paris, one lesser, but still active member of "The Six" (Francis Poulenc) was in the French Army, another (Georges Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...
...took the full weight of this evidence to persuade gun-shy businessmen that business really was better. There were still two wide rivers to cross. Their pet barometer, the stockmarket, was still flat on its back, had scarcely twitched since its recovery from the Blitzkrieg Collapse (TIME, June 3). And businessmen could not down the fear that taxes would rise faster than profits, convert the Defense Boom to a profitless prosperity...