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...coast of Europe and into the English Channel moved the tiny Galeb, beneath an umbrella of R.A.F. planes. Tito transferred to the Port of London launch Nore, passed up the Thames under London's bridges (closed off and guarded by armed police) to Westminster Pier for a grade A reception by Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Eden, the Duke of Edinburgh, a 166-man brass band. Then a War Office armored Rolls-Royce with bulletproof windowglass whisked Tito and Churchill off to No. 10 Downing Street...
...story takes place aboard H.M.S. Indomitable in 1798, the year after the British mutiny at the Nore. Billy Budd is a handsome, blue-eyed, stammering young sailor who radiates innocence and good will, and is a favorite with the whole ship. The one exception is the master-at-arms, John Claggart, a figure of Mephistophelean evil, who, hating all goodness, cannot but hate Billy Budd and plot his destruction. He accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny...
Gounod: Faust (Georges Nore, tenor; Roger Rico, bass; Geori-Boue, soprano, and others; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 32 sides). Faust, with its razzle-dazzle choruses and radiant arias, brought instant fame 90 years ago to French Composer Gounod; this performance adds to Beecham's. Recording: good...
...veterans dreaded crippling (39%) nore than showing their fears (8%). Basic fear of dying fell equally green troops (25%) and veterans...
Lydia gave some nore blood, got another note of thanks: "Your name, my sister, whose blood flows in my veins, was spoken with that love which one can only know when one is at the front." Again it was Lieut. Colonel Vinogradov; twice he had been saved by Lydia's blood...