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Almost as annoying to the Nazis as the Beggars' lethal pranks is the uncompromising stiff-neckedness of all Hollanders. Typical of the Dutch attitude was the banquet given for the Germans by the Burgomaster of Breda, Barthelomeus W. Th. van Slobbe, onetime Governor of Curacao and a student of history. Compelled to throw an official party for the invaders, Van Slobbe served up a curious meal, topped it off with a flowery archaistic speech. Next day the Germans found he had copied menu and oratory verbatim from a similar occasion after the French conquered Breda...
...constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate an' has got no nearer than it is, thin the divvle is a divvle iv a ways further off than I feared...
...Princet'n at Dartm'th...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pa-thétique") (All American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Conductor Stokowski makes Tchaikovsky's well-recorded heaves, sighs and tears sound like super de luxe movie music...
Thomas B. Knowles, '34, 724-17th St., Denver, Colorado...