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...SECRET FRONT (327 pp.)-Wilhelm Hoettl-Praeger...
Died. Poultney Bigelow, 98, wealthy, globetrotting author-journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...
...Euryanthe and Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. Euryanthe was presented in its uncut version and the audience learned to appreciate the program note from a Weber contemporary: "This man writes for eternity and so his operas never end." Other festival events were concerts under Wilhelm Furtwängler, Guido Cantelli and Bruno Walter...
Died. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 67, widow of the late Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and daughter-in-law of Germany's last emperor, the late Kaiser Wilhelm II; after long illness; in Bad Kissingen, Germany...
...beat for the German boxing crown in 1928, had landed in a Soviet-zone jail. Diener's crime: while chief butcher in an East German sausage factory, he got caught passing out state-owned Bratwurst to hungry friends. Schmeling wrote to East Germany's Puppet President Wilhelm Pieck, got Diener pardoned by the Russians. Last week, after refusing a job as East Germany's commissar of boxing, Franz Diener fled to West Berlin and gratefully awaited a reunion with Old Opponent Schmeling...