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...east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with...
Nazi Jew-haters have long studied the globe, picking out other peoples' colonies as a home for Europe's Jews. Madagascar stands high on the list. Australia, its Anglo-Saxon population moved to Canada and its great central plain irrigated with Jewish millions, has been considered. Even Alaska has been mentioned as the new Jerusalem. Hinting at tough measures to come, the Himmler organ warned: "The European Jewish question is not to be solved through homeopathic remedies and not by . . . humane directions...
...less remarkable than this gadget is the small, grey man who thought it up-Professor Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
...city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader on the east coast (Harold of Norway) whom they repelled (Battle of Stamford Bridge). Returning hurriedly to the Channel, their lightly armed forces (Saxon soldiers with shields and two-handed axes, peasants with javelins and stone-tipped clubs), were easy carving for the mounted, armored Normans. In October, Conqueror William won the Battle of Hastings, where King Harold was killed by an arrow in the eye. William proceeded leisurely to London, where he was crowned...