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Vichy's continued surrender of Jews to the Nazis last week brought forth one of the war's most eloquent documents-a brief pastoral letter from Jules Géraud Saliège, the semiparalyzed Archbishop of Toulouse. Said the Archbishop in full...
...little heavy in spots, but the necessary power and brilliance are there. The best of this new album of his is, of course, the "Tristan" excerpt. It's that wonderful scene where Tristan, knowing he is going to die, invites Isolde to follow him into "dasdunkel nacht'ge Land, daraus die Mutter einst mich sandt," and Melchior renders it with the perfect shade of dusky "Weltschmerz...
General Electric orders in the June quarter were a whopping $566,250,000, one-quarter larger than its entire annual sales in the boom year 1929. Almost 100% war work, the new orders will help boost GE's 1942 sales to $1 billion or better...
...French Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) in the Indian Ocean. It was exotic after Salem, but not as exotic as Bowditch seemed to the French when he blushed at their conversations. "Il n'a pas encore perdu sa pucelage," a Frenchman explained to a French lady. "Quelle âge avez-vous, monsieur?" she asked Bowditch. "Twenty-three." The French lady threw up her hands: "C'est une chose absolument impossible de conserver la pucelage á cette âge...
...saddest were heard in the U.S. The League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argel...