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...Vandenberg, Lodge was labeled an isolationist, but he favored military preparedness, and called for conscription before President Roosevelt did. Domestically, his record was liberal, with a shrewd eye on his constituents. He was one of two Republicans to vote for the Wages and Hours Bill, and he defended the Wagner Act. He got a bill passed, relieving Irish immigrants from the necessity of forswearing allegiance to the British king (they refuse to admit they ever owed any such allegiance), and thus made himself a hero to Boston's Irish...
...like a real concert. Pierre Monteux walked slowly to the podium, acknowledged the applause, and began conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of Wagner and Debussy. Only the informality of the orchestra members, the smallness of the crowd, and the infrequent interruptions by Monteux showed that this was just a rehearsal...
...After its long and bitter battle over ex-President Paul A. Wagner (TIME, March 19 et seq.,), Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. opened in sunny harmony under Acting President Hugh F. McKean, with a normal enrollment of 600 students. The only visible clouds on Rollins' horizon: a $500,000 law suit brought by ex-President Wagner for damages; a $25,000 suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden...
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Since its foundation in 1842, the Salzburg Festival has always featured Native Son Wolfgang Mozart, although other Austrians and some outsiders, e.g., Beethoven and Wagner, often creep in. One Austrian whose name was never mentioned in the same breath with Salzburg was Atonalist Alban Berg. But this year Berg made...