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Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks crooked stiffly back, their reflexes weakened. Most lapsed into partial, some into complete coma. Others drowsed in daytime, fidgeted at night. As the malady spread, early sufferers grew maniacal...
...Cabinet. Not until the morning after Provisional President de Cespedes' inauguration did Cubans end their general strike. Tramcars clanged again, busses rattled, milk wagons resumed their rounds, markets opened and storekeepers finally raised their steel shutters. After a conference with Ambassador Welles, the Provisional President formed a partial Cabinet, with no Secretary of State. Triumphant members of the ABC, the secret anti-Machado cabal formed three years ago to combat the Porra, received four Cabinet posts, with Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, chief of the A B C, as Secretary of the Treasury...
...spite of only one rehearsal, youthful Conductor Barzin produced smooth, energetic interpretations of a program scarcely calculated to arouse enthusiasm. He is partial to his contemporaries, likes to balance comparable works by modern Europeans and Americans. His audiences at the Stadium heard seven U. S. composers, including three New Yorkers, Philip James (Overture in Olden Style on French Noels), Robert Braine (S. O. S.), Deems Taylor (Through the Looking Glass). Without frills, Barzin directs in a kinetic physical style, occasionally threatens to get ahead of his orchestra in timing. But some critics found the concerts directed by him the best...
...bold blunt aims of Benito Mussolini's "Four-Power Pact" as originally announced (TIME, April 10) were partial revision of the post-War treaties and gradual granting of arms equality to the defeated nations. Last week, emasculated beyond recognition. Il Patto a Quattro was ready to receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing...
There is not much plot to most men's lives, and the ending is invariably "un-happy." But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even one individual career. Since the main outline is universally identical, writers do not concern themselves so much with total similarities as with partial differences. Author Fallada's case-history is of a young German couple whose developing plight is echoed everywhere today throughout the western world; but his Teutonic tones give the well-known story a kind of foreign freshness...