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...hungry friends and relatives in Germany after World War I, Germans in the U. S. sent many a neat package of sausage, chocolate, coffee, soap, with Gruss und Kuss (Greetings and Kisses). The practice became popular again when Hitler ordered the Nazis to stick out their chests, pull in their stomachs, get ready for World War II. Last fall, as German belts began to tighten behind the British blockade, a stream of food packages began to flow from the U. S. to Germany, through neutral countries...
Among the richest sections of the library for scholars are those of the Baroque period of German literature from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 18th centuries, and of the "Sturm und Drang" period of the latter half of the 18th century...
...first group contains works by Bach, Mozart, and Handel. The Mozart song, an aria from La Clemeza de Tito, will be done with a clarinet obligato. The middle groups consists of the Schumann song-cycle. Frauenlibe und Leben. A group of modern French songs will complete the program...
...Kleinchen inspects him from top to toe, sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that his hunting horn is in place. At the murmuring strains of Wagner's prelude, Melchior throws away his cigar and clears his throat. Kleinchen smiles and murmurs her parting salute: "Hals-und Beinbruch" (an old German good-luck greeting meaning "May you break your neck and your legs"), and the great Lauritz Melchior bounds youthfully on to the Metropolitan's aged stage...
Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force...