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Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian-born conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a touching "Bravo!" Wrote his 80-year-old sister Anyuta, from Russia: "Brother Serezha! Our family has had plenty of trouble. Our dear [brother] Nicholas perished in Leningrad in 1941 at the hands of the Fascist butchers. Only thou and I are left, my beloved brother. ... I have heard that thou, with thy work, also art helping our common cause, the destruction of our common enemy. . . . All my life I have been proud of thee and I shall be proud of thee until my last days...
General Friedrich Christiansen, 64, is chief for Holland. A World War I flying ace and no Junker, chunky, weather-beaten Christiansen is also a mariner, went back to sea after the last war and captained the liner Rio Bravo on the Hamburg-Mexico run. Later, returning to the air, he piloted Germany's Do-X flying boat, ultimately stepped in behind Göring to build up the Luftwaffe...
Mexicans call the Rio Grande the Río Bravo (Wild River). Last week border citizens heard that the Río Bravo may be tamed and put to use; the U.S. and Mexican Governments have signed (but not yet ratified) a treaty under which the two countries will put up some $25,000,000 each for a series of dams to control and store the river's waters for irrigation...
...Bravo, Miss. Bowers, and a sincere hope that for your sake, the water-tight integrity of the urn will not again break down... Welcome to the new class of Specialists... and Congratulations to those who were directed by the recent Alnav to add new stripes
Last week Batista took another crack at the dictator across the water. He ordered his Minister of the Interior, Antonio Bravo Costa, to legalize the belligerently Loyalist Spanish Republican Circle, outlawed since 1936 street riots with Franco Falangistas. He made no move to release the many Falangistas now jailed as fifth columnists...