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Adolf Hitler's generals know what they are about. They have studied their Erich Ludendorff and their Giulio Douhet (an Italian theoretician who says that modern war must be fought with mass air attacks). They knew that their advance into Poland would be a pushover. Nevertheless their tactic was a Ludendorff infiltration, modified to suit a mechanized army. Long steel fingers reached into Poland's flesh, then clamped together and squeezed the blood out. This they did with speed which was only less amazing than their efficiency...
...Sacred College: each Cardinal in turn had knelt before him, election bent over the cross embroidered on his slipper. Returning from the balcony to the Sistene Chapel, he accepted a second "obedience," then on his throne received the homage of the papal household-including two of his nephews, Giulio and Marcantonio Pacelli, members of the Noble Guard...
When paunchy, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza was General Manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Metropolitan's corps de ballet was run by his wife Rosina Galli. Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial. Critics in those days were agreed that the Metropolitan had many shortcomings, but that the shortest of all was Balletmistress Galli's ballet...
Twelve years ago air force chiefs throughout the world were gripped, fascinated by Mastery of the Air, a book by Italian General of Aviation Giulio Douhet. He has since died, but Mastery of the Air has become the standard text of thousands of young air officers in every land who hold with what is called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy...
...which the author admits she is plump, is not too boastful about herself or too jealous of her peers, is on its face noteworthy. Such a volume (ghosted by Dorothy Giles) is Men, Women and Tenors* by Frances Alda. Long a capable Metropolitan Opera Soprano, first wife of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mme Alda launches her book with much of the triumphant, glassy-smiling air of a diva squaring off at a high C. Says her introduction: "For 50 years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows my age)-for 51 years, to be exact...