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Most effective Confederate raider was Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, who captured 86 vessels, burned 62 of them. In Semmes of the Alabama, Author Roberts, a devoted, "unreconstructed" Southerner, tries hard to make Semmes a heroic figure. But Semmes's exploits, unlike those of most Confederate leaders, seem almost as shabby now as they did to Unionists of 1864. The fast, heavily armed Alabama merely overhauled unarmed sailing vessels, stripped and burned them. Semmes fought only two battles, sank the Hatteras and was soundly whipped by the Kearsarge. Giving none of the background of British and American maritime rivalry...
...historians have already explained away German medieval art, which is anything but naturalistic, as, in the words of Herr Alfred Rosenberg, "turned away from its sources by Catholicism." But. in his demand for neoclassic art in Germany, Führer Hitler did not refer to the fact that Raphael Mengs (1728-79), founder of the German neoclassic school, was half...
Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable...
...time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part in any syndicate of which it was not the biggest member. Its Pine Street building in Manhattan, copied after Raphael's Palazzo Pandolnni in Florence, is occupied by Speyer & Co. alone...
...Raphael Silverman 2G, graduated from Dartmouth in 1936, will be violin soloist. He began his musical studies with Fiedemann in Berlin and with Korgueff in Leningrad, Russia, specializes in an interpretation of "Violin Concerto in D" by Serge Prokofleff...