Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pointers are good soldiers who may meet the same fate today. This logic, however, is too shallow. Football is not war, nor is the stadium a Waterloo battlefield for either team. Columbia has already given the soldiers a taste of defeat; but then Napoleon came back strongly after his Leipzig setback. The Little Corporal once more reigned supreme for the Hundred Days--just about the length of a modern football compaign...
Londoners have television in their homes, pubs and clubs. France has constructed an Eiffel Tower transmitter, expects to telecast to the public within a few months. Germans have television-equipped telephone service between Berlin and Leipzig, can ring up faces as well as voices. But in the U. S., where the radio industry is private and the broadcasters have to play the game with their own chips, caution has kept television in the laboratory experimental stage...
...voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest Brünnhilde and Isolde of her generation...
...promise job security, no pay cuts and the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. Strength Through Joy provides sports, inexpensive cinema, theatre, military band concerts, exhibitions, holiday trips on its four ocean liners. Last week in Hamburg 18-year-old Lieschen Kiesling, pretty factory worker from a Leipzig spinning mill, broke a bottle of German champagne over the fifth big liner, christened it Robert Ley. Master of ceremonies at the microphone was Reichsführer Adolf Hitler himself...
...pelvis (see cut). Gynecologist Howard Kelly taught Artist Brödel this phase of medical art. Dr. Kelly-just turned 80 and the only survivor of the Four Doctors-attended last week's dinner. It was Dr. Kelly who got Max Brödel to leave his native Leipzig for Baltimore in 1894 to illustrate Kelly's Operative Gynecology. That and other books by Dr. Kelly and Johns Hopkins doctors kept the artist busy until 1911. Then Dr. Kelly's associate, Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen, persuaded the late President Henry Walters of the Atlantic Coast Line...