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...bright, modern auditorium was packed to the last seat with notables and students-Swiss and Germans, Americans and Japanese-and the air was electric with expectancy. About to make his farewell lecture last week was Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant theologians, whose multivolume work-in-progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism...
Romantic Wallowing. "Sigi" Jung (nicknamed from the Schwyzerdütsch pronunciation of his initials), only son of a Reformed Church pastor, had a lonely, bookish boyhood in Basel. His father began teaching him Latin at six. In adolescence he wallowed in the German romantics. He read Greek and Sanskrit and steeped himself in philosophy. He thought of becoming an archaeologist. To please his father he took up medicine-and began digging into the minds of patients...
...years ago Thompson offered his collection to the city. But he insisted that it be housed in a special museum. Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years. He went then to a 40-year-old Basel art dealer named Ernst Beyeler, with whom he had long been trading pictures. Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built. Last week most of the other prizes, once offered to Pittsburgh, went...
Died. Dr. Karl Lehmann, 66, German-born U.S. archaeologist who spent 22 years digging in the marble-littered Aegean isle of Samothrace, turned up a host of notable finds, including the missing right hand of the Louvre's famed Winged Victory; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland...
...Basel, Switzerland...