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Twelve days after swaggering Nazi Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs took command in the Balkans, a few plucky British parachutists and seaborne troops stole three plums: Greek Samos and the fabled islands of Cos and Leros in the Dodecanese...
JULIAN RICE Cos Cob, Conn...
...Mozart: Così fan tutte (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, conducted by Fritz Busch; Victor; 40 sides in three volumes; $21.50). A fluent, pulsing performance of Mozart's comedy of rococo love, the last of his operas to be recorded complete. Così fan tutte, like the recorded Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, was expertly given before the war at John Christie's Glyndebourne Manor, Sussex, England. Conductor Busch and the soprano star of Così fan tutte, Ina Souez, figured in Manhattan performances of the opera last month...
...greatest physician of all times" was Hippocrates of Cos, a Greek who lived in the golden Age of Pericles. He was the first doctor in Western history to: 1) take the practice of medicine out of the realm of magic, the hands of priests; 2) draw up a set of lofty ethical rules for doctors (among them the Hippocratic oath,* still followed by physicians today); 3) make careful scientific observations (he published a classic description of tuberculosis); 4) let nature take its course, instead of using drastic purges and operations. Nevertheless, he strayed from the scientific path in originating...
After dark came the Admiralty's command: go in and rescue the Altmark'?, prisoners, with or without Norway's permission. Captain Vian at once took his Cos sack into the fjord again. He went aboard the Norwegian gunboat Kjell, invited her commander to lead a British boarding party which would find out for certain about prisoners on the Altmark. The Norwegian declined, but went aboard the Cossack, which proceeded up the moonlit fjord to its precipitous end, where the Altmark had got fast in pack...