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...Miss Inga Allison, onetime dean of the home-economics division: "In our active years, we taught from 7:30 in the morning till 5 at night. We were the student-loan fund. We loaned our money without regard for whether we might get it back. We all made personal and financial sacrifices, and we did so gladly, because it was for the good of the school. Now, many of us won't be here long. We want to think that we can meet our last expenses out of our own resources. We don't want to be stripped...
Since then, successive Esterhazy princes have tried everything from bribery to pleading to recover it. Most recent attempts: 1912, 1931, 1939 and 1948. Last week pressure on the Friends of Music by the Austrian Education Ministry apparently succeeded. If the present agreement holds till spring, the skull of the great composer will be reunited with his bones as a ceremonial event on the Esterhazy estate during the 1954 Haydn Festival...
...cold did not stop the children's play. Remembering those days in her autobiography,* she exulted: "Wintertime! When zero stands at 25 or 30, when we cannot deny the pleasure of skating till we have bumped heads, and bleedy noses, and the ice is like glass. Oh what joy and pleasure as we get together, to go for the Christmas tree, what air castles we build as we slide down the hill, who can rebuild what we see on that Christmas tree. Oh, those days of childhood...
...gunning for the young squire, son of her late mistress, and writing her mother progress reports: " 'Laud,' says I, 'Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude'; 'no,' says he, 'my Dear,' and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my Breath-and I pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again, and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs. Jervis came in, and had like to have spoiled Sport...
Acts of heroism were common. One lieutenant won the Medal of Honor by ignoring a bullet-torn left hand and lobbing grenades into a Jap machine-gun nest till he knocked it out. With two more bullets in his chest, he mounted a U.S. tank and fired its antiaircraft gun into a second machine-gun position until still another bullet knocked him off the tank. He was back with his unit within a month...