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...left the concert stage to serve in the Austrian army in World War I. He had been severely wounded-"A whole troop of Russian Cossacks rode over me." Some could also remember, with embarrassment, how he had returned to a U.S. that had become bitterly hostile to "Hun" music and "Hun" musicians, and how he had turned hostility to homage with the simple beauty of his playing...
Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...
...bomb started ticking in the dusky hour when Londoners yawn and struggle home in the crowded underground. Ever since the Hun dropped it on April 16, 1941, the 1,100-lb. time-bomb had been buried under 30 feet of earth in London's beautiful St. James's Park. Londoners had given it a nickname, "Annie"; and its site was officially noted. Throughout the changing weather of war, victory and peace, people hurried past it on the rebuilt Tarmac walk, and courting couples sat on the nearby lawns...
...Hun," said Winston Churchill, "is always either at your throat or at your feet." Definitely at the Allies' feet when they invaded Germany, "the Hun" last week showed signs of getting up again...
Died. John Gale Hun, 67, founder (1914) and headmaster of the Hun School (boy's preparatory) and of Princeton's best-known tutoring school; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A famed teacher of dullards, an inveterate poker player, a kindly wit, Dr. Hun helped many a husky lad get into Princeton University and stay there...