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...music critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, Einstein was obliged to attend the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth held in honor of Adolf Hitler. When he found his German colleagues had become nonentities in brown uniforms, he decided he "couldn't stand it any longer." He shipped his priceless collection of music-manuscript copies to England and then followed them. Now Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back to work as a master mason in music...
Although a Boston newspaper intimated yesterday that Perry might have destroyed the remainder of the "priceless" Houghton volume, University library authorities stated last night that he more likely removed the distinctive binding and opening pages because they identified the book as Harvard property...
...Boston police when a local art dealer checked with the state about another old document which concerned the sale of land in Vermont by the Earl of Sterling. Discovering that this document, too, was missing from state collections, authorities began checking the stock and noticed that some 43 priceless documents were missing...
...Mary on which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover backed into one of her pieces of priceless Ming pottery and smashed it to bits...
...Expert and irreplaceable ordnance workers have been fired from the Rock Island and Watervliet arsenals, have drifted to other jobs. Gone was a priceless reservoir of talent...