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This was one of the war's grandest single pictures of united and perfectly functioning military machines in a supreme moment of pure fighting motion...
...September 1940 the Panzers had blitzed Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France. Adolf Hitler had capered in delight before the camera. Now he waited to caper again as the Luftwaffe battled across the Channel. In her darkest, grandest hour, Britain stood alone...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
...Raphaelite Tragedy ($3), a witty history of the famous group of British Victorian painters. Virginia Woolf also, in her posthumous Death of the Moth ($3), showed her most delicate skill as a literary escapist. Harry Levin's James Joyce ($1.50), blind though it was to Joyce's grandest and plainest virtues as an artist, furnished plain readers with useful X-rays of much that was most abstruse in Joyce's genius...
...Century have earned a million dollars or more in the course of their careers. So reported Variety last week. Tops of them all-in fact, the greatest musical earner of all times-is the late great Polish pianist, Ignace Jan Paderewski, whose money-making record embraces three firsts: 1) grandest grand total: close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five...