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Patience & Fortitude. Polish Pianist Maryla (pronounced Mariela) Jonas should not have been such a surprise. She made her debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at nine. Paderewski heard her play, gave her lessons. When Maryla's father objected to a music career for his daughter, Paderewski said quietly: Patience. It...
The critics and audience agreed-they whistled for five encores. Maryla Jonas made her goal. It was not goodbye. It was a big hello.
Among Army and Navy officers the hottest question of the 'week was not the atomic bomb but the merger of the armed services. It was so hot, in fact, that burly Admiral Jonas Ingram, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, angrily declared that the proposed single department was "too much...
The Homecoming. To emphasize this civilian-serviceman barrier of unshared experience, Author Jonas jumps intermittently from the Aleutian action to the miserable frustration of a returned sailor amid civilians who cannot understand what he has no words to tell them. In the downtown businessmen's club the sailor could...
Bishop Berggrav first used his famed persuasive powers on his own guards -and converted them. This enabled him to move outside his cottage. He then ran the underground church through a coded information system which cobwebbed Norway. (He corresponded regularly with Bishop Gustaf Aulen in Sweden, signing his letters "Dr...