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...were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi and works for Lord Rothermere who is always received by Hitler when in Berlin. A schoolmaster of Hitler's boyhood, now nearly 80, had come tottering to see his pupil, the Führer, enter Linz, and a rollicking song rose with the chorus: "Today Germany is ours! Tomorrow the whole World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Comes Home | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Crimson coach, who has nursed the game from its infancy in 1914 to a nation-wide pastime today, it was just a sign that squash is growing up, that the pupil is getting good enough to beat the master now and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Defeat by Elis a Sign of Growing Pains, Says Coach | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

...Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well as a singer), who visited the U. S. in 1913; and 3) Elena Gerhardt, a pupil of the late great Conductor Artur Nikisch, who came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lieder Singer | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right and should continue. I told him what I could teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Skirted Conductor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Small Julia Hatcher, pupil at Hatcher School, Marked Tree, Ark., raised her hand. Said Julia: "I want to leave the room." Asked teacher: "Why?" Replied Julia: "Because the room is on fire.'' Out marched the children. Down burned the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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