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...students' plans were studied last month by Dean Bundy, Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, Trottenberg, and a committee from the Architecture faculty. The judges were "sympathetic with the modern trend," according to Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture, in charge of the project. He doubted that any of the plans would be adopted directly, but Trottenberg said they would be carefully reviewed for worthwhile ideas...
Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture here, is chairman of the conference...
...foreigner who was touched by Berlin's sorrow without fully sharing it. Heinrich Böll, by contrast, knows the inwardness of his people's sorrow-and only the inwardness. In Acquainted with the Night, Author Böll plucks three days from the life of Fred Bogner, a switchboard operator who has been drifting through the ruins of the Ruhr, drinking and playing pinball ever since he returned from the Russian front...
...Bogner, at 43, finds his home smashed (two babies died in a rat-infested cellar), his will to work gone sour. He leaves his wife and remaining children because there is literally no room for him in their miserable one-room apartment. But after 15 years of marriage, Fred and Kate Bogner have become a habit with each other. Against a backdrop of Rhineland prosperity, symbolized by a convention of German druggists, Fred borrows enough money to rent a cheap hotel room so that he and his wife can meet without the children seeing or the neighbors listening...
...contrives what, for him, is a happy ending. Fred Bogner goes back to his cramped home. But there is no real relief, for, like his hero, Author Böll is apparently determined to go on suffering, even though the need for it may have passed...