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...story continued, by Wolfram Bossert and driven in a rickety Volkswagen down a potholed dirt road into a virtual slum. "My father's house," Rolf remembered, "was nothing more than a wooden hut." Inside, it was meanly furnished with a bed, a table, a few chairs and a closet. As he entered the house, Rolf recalled, "my father trembled with excitement. I saw that he had tears in his eyes...
...King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...
...though it's certainly nothing like Harvard in the snow, if it lets closet pre-professionals get their jollies during the summer, the summer school program is worth all the praise it's director gives it in his "Welcome to Harvard" remarks in the opening pages...
...reasons still not clear, they raided a house that is believed to belong to Hans Sedlmeier, a onetime legal clerk for the Mengele firm. Sedlmeier was widely reported to have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home, the investigators found seven or eight letters apparently mailed by Mengele from Brazil between 1972 and 1978. They also discovered two more recent letters from Wolfram and Lieselotte Bossert, an Austrian couple who had moved to Brazil in 1952. These letters implied that Mengele was dead...
...Harvard won't be the A students-it'll be B and C students that are personable. And Doyle is nothing if not personable. He is also, by his own evaluation, intense. "If he's going to do something," says Mielach, "he's going it." He's a closet studier. It doesn't seem like he's ever studying--but he gets good grades...