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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrew and his wife were arrested, charged with trying to take national treasures from the country. The pictures were carted to the Ministry of Security, where Prince Christopher Radziwill, one of the few aristocrats to join the Communist-dominated government, watched them being uncrated. A Potocki and a Radziwill were face to face again when they came to the portrait of wrinkled, unlovely Isabella Potocka. Said Prince Radziwill to his leftist companions: "Look, there's Aunt Izzy...
...eight most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home to her quisling husband and semi-retirement in 1941, the Met's Wagnerian first team has been Melchior and Traubel...
Even by the rough & tumble standards of Mexican revolution, El Indio's life story is amazing. When his father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General...
...little group of willful men who did not join the Dartmouth caravan, WHCN will broadcast a play by play description of the game this afternoon. At 1 o'clock the Network will go on the air with popular music and 50 minutes later will switch to Hanover where Gerry Weiler '49 and Lou Wainman '46 will handle the reporting...
...student-veterans at Harvard to join with the present 700 members of AVC here in working for a vigorous, non-partisan liberal program. Recent events demonstrate the pressing need for active participation in the influencing of problems on the international, national, and college level. We need every veteran at Harvard to work for those progressive measures which are, in the long run, to the best interests of both himself and every citizen...