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Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...take in a limited number of civilians who have the prerequisite familiarity with alternating current electrical theory. This school is operating with new, up-to-date equipment. Its corps of 16 teachers includes not only men from our own staff, but experts from places as far away as Texas, Stockholm, and the Mcole Polytechnique at Paris. The course in this school is of three months duration and involves 86 hours a week of class-room time. It is tuition-free, but under existing regulations can be taken only by college graduates or by students who first resign from college...
Soprano Flagstad was partly responsible. Years ago, when she sang an audition in Oslo, a baby cried in the next room. It was Astrid Varnay. Flagstad made friends with the elder Varnays, a coloratura soprano and a stage director at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Soon the Varnays moved to the U.S. When Flagstad followed, she learned that Astrid had a voice and sent her to her own teacher, Hermann Weigert...
...Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler...
Instructors in Electronics; Herbert D. Schwetman of Waco, Tex., A. M. University of Texan '37; and Harry E. H. Stockman of Cambridge, Mass., Diploma, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm...