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...heeded the warning. In recent years, Gottwald carefully fostered the illusion that he was a "good Communist," by revealing his jolly personality to the press (he loved Moravian folk songs and played "horsie" with his granddaughter on the living-room carpet). Benes and many other men of good will preferred to believe in the jolly Gottwald of 1948 rather than in the candid Gottwald...
Most of the Eskimo voters would be picked up offshore from the missions of the Moravian Brethren who came out from Germany to Christianize the Eskimos in 1764. Like the whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...
...Bratislava last week, Slovak independence provided a test of his technique. During a soccer game between the Czech-Moravian team and the Slovak eleven, Slovak spectators took offense at two sudden Czech goals, injured several Czech players. The rioters were finally subdued with a fire hose...
Earl Albrecht had a right to talk like a zealot. Like his father, he had trained to be a Moravian missionary, in an evangelical Protestant church which claims to be the only one with more missionaries in the field than members at home. As a college student he accompanied a choir on that most evangelical of instruments, the trombone. In 1935 he went north to Alaska as a doctor...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...