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...convent was founded shortly after the war by two Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls...
Searching the Attic. Pearson's legman took Pearson's copy of the Nickerson memorandum to the Pentagon to see if he could stir up an Air Force rebuttal. But the Air Force refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody...
...masters is France's 17th century Georges de La Tour (TIME, July 12, 1948), three of whose works have just been acquired by U.S. museums (see color page). The wonder seems less that such paintings are recognized as masterworks than that they were ever consigned to the attic...
...long as the men avoided new stressful situations. Groover is not yet prepared to say that success in restoring fat levels to normal means that potential heart attacks have been prevented. Such high levels may be a major factor contributing to the attack, "like the oily-rag-in-the-attic fire," he says, "but they aren't necessarily the cause of heart attacks." Still, Groover is sure that somewhere in the area of diet and stress, the answer will be found...
Cold Snorage. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn was granted a divorce after she testified that her husband made her sleep in an unheated attic for ten years "because I snored," wouldn't allow her to leave the attic door open at night because "too much cold air blew down...