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...will try to do one or all of these things ?they will simply be absorbed. They are overextended now. The fourth round, if and when it comes, will be a Six-Year and not a Six-Day War. It won't be ended by anyone's coup de gr??ce. They can't win this kind of war again." That is probably wishful thinking...
Among London's shortages last week was an acute dearth of sopranos able to sing the demanding lead in Verdi's Aïda. At noon on the day of a performance, Covent Garden learned that Soprano Gr?? Brouwenstijn had a case of laryngitis. By 1:30 Conductor Sir John Barbirolli and the opera management had made a quick canvass of the countryside without flushing an available soprano, finally began calling the Continent...
...from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gr??fenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn in stiff bowler hats the two von Hindenburgs gazed...
Three weeks ago the baccarat syndicate, composed of two wealthy Greeks and an Armenian?Gregory Vagliano, Sographos and Condgmed-jian?lost 2,500,000 francs ($137,750.00); two weeks ago they lost 6,000,000 francs ($330,600.00); last week saw the coup de gr??ce with a loss of 10,000,000 francs ($551,000.00) ; the bank was broken and the E Deauville Casino, for the first time in history, is in darkness at the height of the season. Lost ? 18,500,000 francs; produced?nothing...