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...doctors told the Count that their measures had not cured him permanently but assured him that he was well enough to travel. With his right foot in an enormous boot and two canes to help him walk, the famed hemophiliac reached Manhattan last week, proceeded to the St. Moritz Hotel, where last November he had signed "Conde de Covadonga y Condesa." Last week he signed simply "Alfonso de Borbon," made reservations for at least a month's stay...
...scene of the games which were held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928 and Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected two years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German...
...team of 13 sailed for Europe to compete in the Second Winter Olympic Games. Their departure received no attention whatever. They gave a mediocre account of themselves at St. Moritz. They sailed home again with few better grounds for satisfaction than the fact that almost no one knew what they had been...
Flagstad was 36 when she ventured beyond the Scandinavian boundaries to Bayreuth, sang small roles the first summer, Sieglinde the next. On the strength of her Bayreuth appearances, Gatti-Casazza and Conductor Artur Bodanzky asked her to come to St. Moritz and sing for them there. The room was small, her voice muffled by heavy hangings. But a new Wagnerian was badly needed and she was given a contract. When Conductor Bodanzky queried her about her acting, she answered modestly: "I don't do very much...
...James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg stepped into the glare of the New Deal not long after he was made vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. in 1932. The sharp-witted son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg stood close to President Roosevelt's financial ear in those first dazzling days, changed sides at the London Economic Conference in 1933, has since devoted his energies to a liberal and enlightened presentation of the case against the New Deal. Thanking his directors for tolerating his long and frequent absences from his desk at No. 40 Wall St.. Jimmy...