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...Kurt Heinrich Debus, 50, is the free world's most experienced rocket firer. Even-mannered, precise, saber-scarred from student dueling, he was once a professor at the Technical University at Darmstadt, Germany, started his rocket firing at Peenemunde in 1940. He fired more than 200 rockets in Germany (where an errant V-2 once missed him by 25 ft.). At war's end he came to the U.S. as part of the willing spoils of Hitler's defeated Germany, soon found himself in charge of all rocket firing for the Army...
Last week the talk of literary Germany was a Darmstadt professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...
Died. George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck, 63, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) chairman (since 1949) and longtime president (1925-50) of Merck & Co., Inc., the mass-producing drug and chemicals manufacturer that was launched as a pharmacy in Darmstadt, Germany in 1668 by his ancestors (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Orange, N.J. Devoted to company activities, with an exuberant capacity for work, Merck directed the Government's wartime research on biological warfare, built his company (last year's gross: $172.4 million) mostly on good will ("Medicine is for the people...
Taylor Starck and his successor as Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Bernhard Blume, have been elected Corresponding Members of the German Academy in Darmstadt. Starck is President of the Modern Language Association of America...
Prayers & Sculpture. The Sisterhood of St. Mary was formally organized in 1947 in Darmstadt, with nine members and a capital of 30 marks. "Stoves, beds and chairs had to be prayed for and mustered through faith," says Mother Basilea. Two solid weeks of prayer finally brought the housing authority around to granting them a room. Then they set about praying for furniture. "A broom was sent to us for which we had prayed for a week. A note was tied to it: 'The Lord insisted that I send you this. Did you really need...