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Last year Cornell University's brilliant, Alsatian-born atomic theorist, Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe, trotted out a plausible explanation of how the sun converts hydrogen into radiant energy, and so keeps on shining (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939). At temperatures above 15,000,000° C. (the sun's internal temperature is calculated at 20,000,000° C.), Dr. Bethe found that hydrogen atoms would attack carbon. The carbon would be transmitted into other forms, but after a series of six separate atomic conversions, it would reappear, while hydrogen atoms (of which the sun has enough to last...
Shot. Dr. Karl Roos, 61, Alsatian autonomist leader; after conviction on the charge of conveying military secrets; by a French firing squad; at dawn in Toul...
...many of the Italians in private, refused to take seriously Premier Mussolini's "unofficial" campaign for French lands. In Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy for the Negus Negusti...
...greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841), Russia's handsome, dashing Charles Davidov (1838-89), bearded Alsatian Hugo Becker (1767-1841), and 78-year-old Saxon Julius Klengel...
...heavy-jowled Jew of 64, Herbert Fleishhacker made a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills, got into banking in 1907 by marrying the daughter of Sigmund Greenbaum, president of San Francisco's London, Paris & American Bank. Simon and Alexandre Lazard, Alsatian commission merchants who started Lazard Freres in San Francisco during the gold rush, in 1884 formed the London, Paris & American Bank to handle their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker...