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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. "NJEW YORK. The name of Napc-leon Napc-leon Zervas keeps coming into the news that is relayed from Greece, and he may be the leader around Napoleon Zervas whom his May Rise to Be people will G t-. r rally when reek Tito Broz Narf in vaders try to retreat up the Valley of the Vardar, down which they marched in such easy triumph a while back. Just now, as long ago In Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, there has been a split among Greek partisans, and Zervas has just broken away from the oldest guerrilla forces to set up his own movement. He calls it the National AndaUes members free from the bribery which, he says, taints the old group. , Allied leaders in the Middle East call Zervas Greece's ablest guerrilla leader. Before the war he was an officer of the regular army. Now he calls himself "General Zervas" but whether he uses this title on more than his own authority is not clear. He is old enough to have been a general. His present fight against the Nazis is being waged In the northwestern province of Epirus. This Is his home and his birthplace. birth-place. He knows every dim trail over its wild mountains as Alvin York knows his Tennessee hills. . Every tree, every rock is a friendly shield, and every small village a fortress with a hundred sally-ports out of which to attack or . . . when the enemy presses hard . . . escape to fight again when the odds have evened. SINATRA fans from coast to coast are rising to defend their idol against slurs cast by Artur Rodzin-ski. Rodzin-ski. Older and soberer and more ,. eminent Kodztnskt Takes folk, too, On Sinatra; Winner led by Con- Not as Yet Called uctotr, St0 kowskl, are speaking up in gentle reproof of the maestro. This corner enjoys a bit of boogie woogie but still it thinks that the conductor of the New York Philharmonic should not go undefended. unde-fended. Certainly he has courage. The smoke caused by his' quarrel with dismissed New York musicians has just stopped getting in his eyes, and now he takes on the embattled 'teen agers. The man positively enjoys squaring oft for a fight. Of coarse age doesn't have to worry him yet. He was born in Spalato, Dalmatia, only 50 years ago. And if he needs legal aid in bis squabbles, It's right in his own head ... or ought to be. To please his father he got a law degree at the University of Vienna as well as a doctorate at the Vienna Academy of Music. Mu-sic. He began as conductor of the chorus at Lwow; he went on to Warsaw; came to the U. S. at Stokowski's invitation to be assistant as-sistant director of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia orchestra. This was in 1926. He isn't the long hair that Sinatra calls him although he has an ample pompadour. He has a tall virile figure, fig-ure, nearsighted lively eyes, and a quick likeable grin. His manner on the podium is matter-of-fact but he has plenty of temperament, as all know who listen in Carnegie Hall and over the revealing air waves. THE seldom-heralded earl of Sel-borne Sel-borne (Roundell Cecil Palmer) reports that Germany cannot hold out much longer, and the announcement announce-ment is as Reports Germany significant as Close to Bottom one would be nt u r 1 byEisenhow- Of Her Barrel . ... , er telling of shattered Nazi corps. Selborne is Britain's minister of economic warfare war-fare and it is his business to keep tab as much on Germany's resources re-sources as upon those of his own country. If he didn't know what bombings and the blockade and sabotage were doing to his enemy's stockpiles, he would hardly know how high to heap his own for victory. vic-tory. He is a rock-ribbed conservative, conserva-tive, but bold in his estimates of Germany's staying power. He knows that four million of her best men have been killed in battle, and he knows that this has weakened Hitler's fortress, and how the bombings have weakened it, and the lack of oil, rubber and textiles. He doesn't say just when the break through will come, but his guess ought to be good. The Selborne earldom is not old. It dates back only 62 years or so, but this is the third head of the house to have an important, although al-though unobtrusive finger in his country's problems. The first earl gave sound legal advice to Prime Minister Palmerston in troublesome matters arising out of the American Civil war. The second earl, as high commissioner for South Africa, helped build the Union now standing loyally with the mother country. And the present Selborne has been directing direct-ing the ministry of economic war-!are war-!are three years. I |