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...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...Busch when he was 17, thenceforth appeared with him in chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half ago Serkin married Busch's young daughter Irene...
...Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman is General Sales Manager Clarence Theodore Burg, an ardent Rotarian who made all his salesmen wear flaming red neckties during Depression, urging them to preach "red tie optimism." In self-defense he has had to wear red ties himself ever since...
...Spanish festival lasted four days. Pedro Mendieta, nephew of Cuba's President, elbowed his way through the brightly-costumed crowds to the pavilions where Tampa's four Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less...
...enthusiastic crowd hustled the brave Bishop into his automobile, swept the police and S. S. troops aside, trotted beside the car all the way to his house shouting "Heil Meisser! Pfui Müller!" Another crowd stayed by the church, solemnly chanting Martin Luther's great "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott...