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...years, went 500 veteran workers one morning last week to hear a report on Krupp's affairs. Never before had any Krupp ever condescended to report to his employees; never before had any worker been invited to the "House on the Hill." Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 46, great-grandson of Founder Friedrich Krupp, himself gave his workers the good news. Despite Allied restrictions, Krupp grossed $238 million last year (17.5% from exports), turned its first "satisfactory" postwar profit...
...chosen to take the orchestra on the trip after Furtwangler died last fall. In its programs the Berlin Philharmonic stuck rigidly to tradition. Its selections in New York last week were downright condescending: Haydn's Symphony No. 104, Prelude and Love Death from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Beethoven's Symphony No: 5. The Berliners seemed determined to show the New World how the old classical war horses should be tamed...
...dispute were spoken by crusty old Lord Vansittart, a distant cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
...nearly 90 in all, they were representatives of the present ruling houses of Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; disinherited princelings from Italy, France, Spain, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; dynastic relics from kingdoms whose thrones had long since ceased to exist: Bourbon-Parmas, Mecklenburgs, Schaumburg-Lippes, Hesses, Thurn und Taxis, and Hohenlohe-Langenburgs...
Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (Ilse Hollweg, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry, soloists; Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard; Columbia...