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Lord Louis, 43-year-old, 6-ft.-4-in. second cousin to King George VI, is best known as the Chief of Britain's savage, knife-wielding Commandomen. His title, heretofore: Chief of Combined Operations. As such he directed numberless hit-&-run raids against the coast of Hitler's Europe...
Surely the identifying names below the pictures of Leo X and Alexander VI (TIME, Aug. 16) have been scrambled! ... I am reasonably certain that the end illustration labeled Leo X is really lecherous, worldly old Alexander VI, father of Cesare, Lucrezia, et al. He looks it. Moreover, it is a genuine injustice to the cultured and able...
...Inquisition); Innocent III (who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed in his master plan to conquer and unify Italy); Pius VII (whose Concordat with Napoleon restored Catholicism to France); Leo XIII (whose encyclical, Rerum Novarum, first diagnosed for Catholics the sickness of contemporary society and called upon them authoritatively to cure...
King George VI slips out of bed at 6:30 these mornings, shaves himself, breakfasts on coffee, cereal and powdered eggs, has a hard time getting cigars...
...Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme, August 1 The Boston Society of Ancient Instruments Alfred Zighera, Director La Sultane Couperin Fantasia upon one note Purcell Fantasia Orlando Gibbons Sonata in C major Handel Dances Edited by Tilman Susato Under the direction of Leonard...