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...pianists who rank with Rubinstein in the estimation of critics don't get around much any more (the great Josef Hofmann is 71, and in semiretirement; Artur Schnabel, 65, unexcelled at Beethoven, plays only a few concerts a year). And Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi, who ring the cash register as loudly as Rubinstein in individual concerts, don't make the long tours he does...
...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...
...policy by offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...
Actually, compared with the living standard of other Germans, Josef's is a pampered lot. Besides receiving top rations, he can buy a lunch of vegetable soup with a little meat at the mine daily. If he fulfills his production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been...
...Josef explained that lack of food isn't the only reason for the miners' lethargy: "It's also because we don't really care. Right now we get more to eat if we mine more, but the coal itself doesn't do us any good. Part of it is exported to Lord knows where, and what should go to our industry doesn't-we're not allowed to produce all the things we need. Where is the stuff to rebuild our homes? Where are the clothes I need for myself and my wife...