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...Tug well Upped
Other passengers who left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...
...ship waited ten days to unload its cargo, finally sailed back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them $15 a day. At Seattle 15 men boarded a tug, cornered the crew in the "glory hole," beat them senseless with hammers and clubs, took their money and scuttled the ship. Desperate, the Seattle Times splashed a full-page editorial across its front page : SEATTLE SHALL NOT DIE! To the West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president...
...Dear Children," as the Pope refers to Catholic Youth organizations, number 1,100,000 in Germany and last week were still the centre of a tug-of-war between Church and State. Only group not yet absorbed by the Hitlerjugend, they have been badgered in districts throughout Germany, forbidden to wear uniforms, parade or even play games in public. Typical was their treatment last week in Ulm, where the police forbade them to hold a "parents' evening...
...whipping up climaxes. Toscanini had done all that at rehearsal. When he quivered his hand over his heart the men knew that he wanted the most from them. And always he sang, as he wanted the orchestra to sing. Toscanini's way to quench an ovation is to tug at the concertmaster's sleeve, an order for the musicians to leave the stage. But though the players filed out quickly last week the audience refused to leave until Toscanini came back, shyly accepted their cheers and bravos. It was his 67th birthday...