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Visitors this summer even smoked Mozart cigarettes, munched Mozart pumpernickel. There were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...
Weighty Matter. In Detroit, where by city ordinance a loaf of bread must weigh not less than 15 and not more than 17 ounces, Baker Charles Elson was summoned to court, charged with making his pumpernickel loaves...
After building up to a monumental state of disorder, Cahalys retains most of the characteristics of an Oriental bazaar, the due rugs and aromatic spices having been replaced by Pepsi-Cola and Kasanoff's Pumpernickel. As in an archaic bookshop, one of the merchants explained, "one of our clients is always finding something valuable. As long as order is maintained, you're always welcome to come in and browse around." Maybe you'll pick yourself up something old and rare-like a bar of soap...
...Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...
Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...