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...hours before Soviet bombers started laying the eggs of a new war in Finland (see p. 23), Joseph Stalin, cock of the Kremlin walk, last week crowed a loud denial of something firmly believed by most foreigners in Moscow, not to speak of some natives. Correspondent...
When Londoners began to cock their ears for bombs rather than Beethoven, London's concert halls shut up shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With...
...during it. They habitually refer to such a cynosure as El Hombre -The Man. Last week Latin Americans picked out El Hombre to cope with the world crisis. They wrote editorials praising his attitude, talked about him in bars, shops, homes, and, as if he were a fighting cock to be pitted one day against the ruler of the roost, began to say that in the end it would be up to El Hombre to stop the Führer. El Hombre's name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Britain's Imperial Airways curtailed passenger flights in Europe, but maintained its transatlantic and Empire services. >Recalled from South America by their Governments were the planes of Germany's Lufthansa and France's Air France. Thus Pan American Airways became virtual cock-o'-the-walk on both North & South Atlantic routes...
Britain's cockney chanticleers had not yet started to crow in chorus. But one martial ditty (by Songwriters Max & Harry Nesbitt, Alec Daimler & Syd Green) hit the characteristic British cock-a-doodle...