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Former concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestras of Frankfort, Saarbrucken, and Hamburg, Alexander Schneider was second violinist of the famed Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe, North Africa, the East Indies, Australia and America with a success yet unequalled by any other chamber organization...
...problems which confront each great city in Europe and in America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis or synthesis. They are like products of the industrial revolutions; all are new and all are without guidance. The chaos of Hamburg and the ravages inflicted on that city by war differ in degree and not in kind from the chaos of ravaged London ; one can die as miserably in the slums of Chicago as in the slums of Istanbul; and the assembly lines which in Detroit made automata of populations...
Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...
Lili Marlene (Crown Film Unit; Universal), like many popular soldier songs, is far from martial. Its words (which are sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...
...John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...