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Best Reading Some Christmas recommendations for children aged seven to twelve: FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER, by F. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum; $3.95). Two children run away from their suburban home and hide for a week in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They bathe in the museum fountain, sleep in a 16th century bed, and mingle with tour groups. Also recommended: Mrs. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, a story of two girls who spend the school year pretending to be witches...
...March number of Foreign Affairs a parallel is drawn between the possible trend of French policy and Napoleon's Moscow campaign: "They (the Germans) see two alternatives for France-retreat from an untenable position or a further advance into unoccupied Germany, perhaps to Berlin or even to Konigsburg. This possibility, galling as it would be to their pride, they foresee with equanimity ... it would mean a repetition of Napoleon's Moscow campaign. Passive resistance would make the maintenance of scattered bodies of troops so far from their bases quite out of the question...
...Chittenden Gr., Kirkland Fellow in the University, who is studying at Konigsburg, Prussia, has an article in the last number of the W. P. I., on the "Opportunity for Graduate Study at Harvard...
...university feud between Konigsburg and Heidelburg, was settled last month at Berlin by duels between three delegates, without seconds, from each university. Konigsburg won, having drawn blood fourteen times. Delegates from all the universities watched the proceedings. The affair is reported without comment by the German papers. [London News...