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...yielded in advance, or whether he was told of a fait accompli, only the conspirators knew. There must have been a dramatic scene in the White Palace sometime during the early morning. Later in the day it was reported that Prince Paul had been arrested at Vinkovici, near the Hungarian frontier. Still later he was reported in Greece, either a hostage or a hideaway. What was important was that Paul was gone. At dawn King Peter issued his proclamation...
...recent years, Stokowski has been Philadelphia's conductor more in name than in fact. While he gadded, the orchestra's responsibilities fell upon the dependable shoulders of Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy. Now Ormandy has a five-year contract as full conductor. One cause of the final break between Stokowski and the orchestra's directors: competition between the Maestro's Columbia recordings with his All American Youth Orchestra and his Victor recordings with the Philadelphians (on which Stokowski and the orchestra association share royalties). Stokowski said simply that he would be busy with a new youth orchestra...
...their comment. Vichy was surprised at the speed with which the bill was passed, especially since newspapers had given most of their space to arguments of its opponents. To Vichy it seemed that the war had become a race between Germany's armies and U. S. factories. A Hungarian radio commentator thought that if the U. S. was now the arsenal of democracy, Russia must become the arsenal of totalitaria. In Moscow the Navy paper, Red Fleet, was more inclined to agree with Vichy. "The war," said Red Fleet, "is taking the form of a contest between the world...
...Manhattan from Lisbon came handsome, Hungarian-born George H. Mendelssohn, 29, looking rather more like a U. S. collegiate than the great-great-grandson of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Before going off to join the U. S. Army, Emigre Mendelssohn confided that in his own musical composition he stuck to jazz -"classical jazz...
...News's general treatment of Fascist Italy and of Benito Mussolini. Il Duce was recently cartooned in the News puking over the side of a ship into the Mediterranean while the Führer rushes up with a trayful of seasickly dishes tagged "Spanish Hot Tamales, Greece, Turkey, Hungarian Goulash." The Daily News announced that it will send no replacement to Rome, will be without direct staff coverage in Italy for the first time in 30 years...