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...Oslo listeners hated to see her go, and many of them felt that her voice was as beautiful and sumptuous as ever. But Kirsten Flagstad had made up her mind. She finished with the last notes of one of her most famous roles, ending with Brünn-hilde's portentous words...
...Dolls & Baby-Sitters. Trying to keep a child happy nn bed is a big order. An occupational therapist calls around to give lessons in making leather belts, wallets, rag dolls, etc. The Board of Education sends a teacher for four hours a week. If necessary, the hospital furnishes drugs, lends bed, sheets and bedpans. For a mother who gets worn out with nursing, or just needs to get away from the sick child once in a while, the hospital sends a housekeeper or a babysitter...
...last week, Argentina's Vice President and Strong Man Juan Domingo Perón looked out from his airplane seat at fleecy clouds and the three-plane fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers had cut off its tail assembly...
Three miles beyond, the DC2 landed. There PerAlemánn learned that the fighter pilot had been killed. Said the Strong Man, chalk-white and shaken: "We have been born a second time." Later he took a train back to Buenos Aires, where imaginative Argentines, with no foundation in fact, were already calling the fallen pursuit pilot a home-grown version of Japan's Kamikaze pilots. One proposal that was bandied about: a monument to the man who had scored a near miss...
...gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...