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...monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...soldiers paraded, no trumpets blared, no drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, England. He was Britain's foremost composer. Master of the King's Musick. His Pomp and Circumstance was practically a national anthem.* But as he lay dying from an abdominal operation last autumn. Sir Edward had made his daughter promise not to give him a pompish London funeral. He had grown up in Worcester and in Worcester he had chosen to end his days. He never posed...
...Conductor Hans Richter presented it in Düsseldorf and Richard Strauss acclaimed it. The Enigma Variations, Elgar's best-known symphonic work, was Richter's piece de resistance when he toured England in 1899. Five years later Elgar was knighted and the new King Edward pronounced Pomp and Circumstance "a very fine...
With characteristic modesty, Chemist Conant last autumn dispensed with the pomp & ceremony of a traditional Harvard inauguration, took office quietly and quickly before a few officials in the Faculty Room. In last week's report, first public statement of his presidential philosophy, he left no doubt of his mind and purpose. James Bryant Conant is in love with the search for knowledge. He believes that Harvard's mission is to lead that search. He is sure that Harvard can accomplish that mission only by securing abler...
...school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from a one-armed Englishman...