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Meantime, the German Minister to Finland, Dr. Wipert von Blücher had conferred with representatives of General Mannerheim and with Finnish Government officials. Germany was apparently swinging into action...
...rugged man with white hair and deep-set eyes. He was born in 1882 at Argenteuil near Paris, received a good technical training at several private art academies. About 1907 Braque and Picasso began to do geometric abstractions from nature and 'Picasso enjoyed calling Braque his "cher maitre." Later Picasso remarked that Braque and James Joyce were the "incomprehensibles whom anyone could understand." In the War Braque served as a lieutenant of infantry, was severely wounded, won the Croix de Guerre. Since the War, while his good friend Picasso has leaped from style to style with unparalleled agility, Georges...
...Bulgarian but a Swiss am I, though born in Bulgaria. This as a word of caution to you in case you ever run into one of the thousands of Zwickys whose lives and deaths stand recorded in the church registers (Kirchenbücher) of Mollis, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland for over 600 years...
...perennially excited about alien infiltrations, charged that one Fritz Kuhn, onetime Ford Motor Co. chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist Kuhn eagerly admitted that his Amerikadeuts-cher Volksbund had 200,000 members, but denied all connection with the German Government. "The main purpose of our organization," said he, "is to open the eyes of the American people to the dangers they are facing in the Communistic movement now under way in this country." In Manhattan on receipt...
Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...