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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Arthur Smithies, Chairman of the Department, met frequently this summer and again this fall with a Department Committee on Undergraduate Education appointed last spring. Headed by Professor Dunlop, members of the group are Professors Chamberlain, Duesenberry, and Meyer, Assistant Professors Gill and Lefeber, and instructors Baer and Berman...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Economics: Undergraduate Program Undergoes Extensive Re-Evaluation | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

Surrounded by luxuriant potted philodendron and inspired by the framed motto "Printer's lead has changed the world more than gold," Editor-Publisher Baer cooks up his Bratwurst-heavy humor in offices just two rubble-strewn blocks from the headquarters of East Berlin's government. In addition to Tarantel, Baer puts out a daily, satiric cartoon-and-text press service for some 800 subscribers in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...half of Tarantel's press run of 250,000-300,000 goes to West Berliners; the rest is slipped into East Germany. Tarantel is designed for hidden persuasion: the size of a theater program, it can be concealed in a book, fits easily into a standard German envelope. Baer's remarkable distribution system includes mailings from other countries, including Russia, and delivery by underground members, who delight in dropping copies into Stalin Alice mailboxes and onto the bookshelves of the Soviet House of Culture. Replies to a standard request for reader comment ("Don't forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Financed by anonymous anti-Communist sources, Baer and his Tarantel have shown that there is more than one way to fight Communism. They are doing pretty well with a snicker and a guffaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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