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Shantung Campaign. The historic first defeat in modern times of a major Japanese force, when Chinese fortnight ago drove the invaders out of Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from Tsinan and Tsingtao last week. These raised the siege of Yihsien, from which 20,000 Chinese retreated, and approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese...
...Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described them as major examples of "harmonious destruction." Good examples are The Last Gaucho (see cut) and How About It? (see cut) which the artist captions thus: "The food is going to be good, and maybe the man is hungry, but it is romance what he is after...
MOZART: DIVERTIMENTO No. 15 IN B FLAT MAJOR (Joseph Szigeti & chamber orchestra; Columbia: 8 parts). Violinist Szigeti, rated tops by connoisseurs, gets all there is out of Mozart's melodic delicacies. The accompaniment is spotty...
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CONCERTO IN B FLAT MAJOR (London Philharmonic; Columbia: 8 parts). Virtuoso war-horse brilliantly played by Dutch Pianist Egon Petri...
Sophomore year is a crucial test for a major-league baseballer. It proves whether or not he has been just another child prodigy, whether he will get his degree or flunk out. When Joe Di Maggio of the New York Yankees finished his sophomore year last October with 46 homeruns, 167 runs driven in, .346 batting average and a leading role in the World Series, he knew he was not going to flunk...