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...Lampoon Fools' Week joke backfired yesterday when one fool was arrested and jailed on charges of assaulting and robbing a fake Santa Claus. The fool was released on $1,000 bail pending arraignment today in district court...
...gleaming, Santa Claus countenance of West Germany's roly-poly Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard darkened with fury. No more than four days after the triumphal end of an election campaign in which he made 86 speeches promising no price increases if voters stuck with Adenauer and free enterprise, the big Ruhr coal-mine managers' association had announced a stiff, $1-a-ton price boost. Berating the coal barons for "stupidity" that reflected "the political instinct of horses," Erhard told off 250 of them at an emergency meeting in Essen: "This has hit like a bomb. You have abused...
...architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...little-known 19th century works as Hans Gram's The Death Song of An Indian Chief (words by "Philenia, a lady of Boston"), John Knowles Paine's Overture to As You Like It and Overture to Mac beth by Henry Fry, who claimed that his mammoth Santa Claus symphony was the longest "unified" instrumental piece on a single subject ever written. Fascinating history, modest music...
Another new course in modern European history will be History 153, "History of German Thought from Kant to Spengler," to be given in the spring term. The course will be taught by Claus W. Epstein '48, assistant professor of History and will feature Hegel as the central figure in the course...