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...complete the impression that the Saar was in his bag, Realmleader Hitler meanwhile appointed one of his oldest friends, Herr Josef Bürckel, a qualified German elementary schoolteacher, to be Governor of the Saar from the instant of victory. Accustomed to making himself clear to tiny tots, prospective Governor Bürckel repeated over & over before the microphone that the Saar will be different from the rest of Germany in that it will have no Nazi prison camps. Saar Jews, listening intently, could not quite make out whether Broadcaster Bürckel was promising them immunity, or merely that...
When news of this reached the Kremlin fury knew no bounds. Nobody knows better than shrewd Josef Stalin that the shrewd Russian peasant is a born ironist, famed for taking cracks at his masters by sly indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...
...year-old Ruth Slenczynski will give 30 U. S. concerts this season. Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is so big that the only adult pianists who will play there this month are Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
Pianists. Sergei Rachmaninoff had given 30 U. S. concerts when he sailed last week for Europe. Josef Hofmann arrived on the Rex, attended briefly to his duties at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...wishing to displease Josef Stalin, not a single foreign correspondent turned up in Leningrad last week to try to cover the trial of the assassin of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Two thousand Red Army troops, their greatcoats nearly sweeping the ground, guarded historic Smolny Institute. There Red Boss Kirov of Leningrad was shot in his Party headquarters, and there last week Assassin Nicolaev was tried in blackest secrecy...