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...through the night a special train crawled from Warsaw 200 miles to Cracow. It consisted of a locomotive, four coaches with curtained windows and in the centre an ordinary flat car striped black & blue, the colors of the Polish Military Cross. Floodlights from either end were focussed on the gun carriage, the red-&-white draped coffin, the sword, baton and cap of the Marshal. At every little station the train stopped for a few moments. All along the line candles burned in every farmhouse window and bonfires flickered along the distant hills. At every crossing stood groups of peasants holding...
...will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw, now to be known as Pilsudski University. Exhausted with much mourning, Ambassador Bullitt went to bed in Cracow...
That was 50 years ago. When she arrived in Zakopane, Modjeska met Ignace Jan Paderewski, a slender, golden-haired youth who had begun to doubt whether he could ever achieve a concert career. Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
Most of the world's great pianists have been well launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
...Vilna. ''Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen, Lemberg...