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TIME Marches On
Goose-stepping Nazis have long marched smartly to the brassy, thumpy music of the Badenweiler march. No. 256 in the catechism of German Army marches, it was composed on the battlefield in 1914 by Bandmaster Georg Furst of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Regiment. Herr Hitler first heard it at...
Howling winds and the roar of surf pounding against cliffs hundreds of feet high,--such is the incidental music that surges through one of the cinematic masterpieces of out time, "The Edge of the World." That music sets the tempo, and in time with its thunderous beat marches a story...
Coincident with the arrival in the U. S. of a copy of the 724-year-old Magna Charta (see p. 77), Connecticut last week became the 48th State to ratify the 150-year-old Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) of the U. S. Constitution. Urging the State Senate'...
France started the policy of conscription in 1798 in the aftermath of the Revolution. Oddly enough, it was the revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son...