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Sven Malmberg is a Swedish orchestra leader. In the blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told...
When I dip into the future, jar as human...
...mark. Unlike most modern drugstores, J. Leon Lascoff & Son sells nothing but chemicals, prescriptions, biologicals and a few special cosmetics. Within these limits, Lascoff's pride is to keep everything ("if we don't have it, nobody does")-e.g., a large, dignified, white porcelain jar of leeches, a commodity still in some demand for pugilists' shiners, stands just inside the door...
...ends of the front, the Russians struck last week, and they were massed to strike elsewhere along its length. But the tone of Stalin's order, Moscow dispatches and the nature of last week's battles indicated that these were precautionary blows with a double intent: to jar and weaken the Germans before they could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they had no second front when they...
...days when most Harvard men were graduated into Wall Street or Dad's office, the College's function was that of training Cardinal Newman's "gentleman"--he who "carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast." But since that day, our nation has come to know many things--the glitter and disillusionment of World War I, the shoddy decade of demoralization that followed demobilization, the years of leanness and social waste, the present conflict. As we have learned the lesson, so has Harvard realized that its most important duties...