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This meant that on the Island of Malta the local parliament ceased to exist last week and Governor Sir John Du Cane began to rule by Royal fiat. In the House of Commons Isaac Foot (Liberal) roused Catholic indignation by observing...
...summer opera given in Cincinnati's Zoological Garden.* Each year a ten-week season is given there, eight of grand opera, two of light. A standard repertoire is presented, with Parsifal and Don Giovanni ambitiously included this year. Picked players from the Cincinnati Symphony perform under able Conductor Isaac Van Grove. The singing is by worthy if not world-famed artists. (New this year: Soprano Helen Freund, Tenors Edward Molitore, Joseph Wetzel, Giuseppe Reschiglian, Baritone Joseph Royer, one-time member of the company...
...when the Moors governed Spain and, like Moslems elsewhere, made no religious, cultural or economic discriminations against Jews. While the Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived...
...same restless attitude of public mind that brought defeat to Century made for Forum's success. Sixteen years Century's junior, Forum was founded by Isaac L. Rice, edited first by Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, next by famed Walter Hines Page. A succession of editors led in 1923 to Mr. Leach, under whose direction Forum has more than tripled the highest circulation of Page's time...
Rumo(u)r has it that comment of a similar nature has been prevalent in the sister institution, Alma Mater of Sir Isaac Newton, Pitt and Paul Melon. The latter was reported in your good columns as having stroked the crew of Emmanuel College to victory in the annual winter regatta. Can you tell us what was meant by "the annual winter regatta" and how long this institution has existed at Cambridge-so that we may have the pleasure of witnessing it on the occasion of its recurrence? Can you also tell us when Mr. Paul Melon took up residence...