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...forests and villages, killing cattle and even attacking humans. Declared Dr. Nils Dahlbeck, a Swedish bear expert: "They are reclaiming their former habitat. Also, they find populated areas more profitable for variety in diet." Chief victims were the Lapps who experimented for centuries with anti-bear measures. Sample: put brännvin (brandy) under juniper bushes and get the bears drunk...
...South it was the rockets, and more than brännvin was needed to counteract them. Since last May, swarms of spool-shaped, silent missiles with fiery tails have been zooming over Swedish territory at 875 m.p.h. (500-odd reports described some as slower and cigar-shaped, others as square and red-bottomed...
...Columbia, 6 sides). The Met's little wren perches on a high E and holds it in Caro Nome from Verdi's Rigoletto. Just as showy are Heinrich Proch's Theme and Variations for Soprano Voice and David's Charmant Oiseau from La Perle du Brésil. Performance : excellent...
...Europe, was the gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...