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Perhaps a reason is that so little physical evidence survives to humanize the man. East Germany has a plethora of preserved Luther sites--Eisleben contains the house in which Luther was born and also the one in which he died--and Handel's birthplace, a solid two-story house, still stands not far from his rather smug statue in Halle's central marketplace...
...Bach could have been inspired by his surroundings. The Saxon plain is as flat as Kansas, its tiny villages grim studies in brown and gray; the ferocious reforming spirits of Lutheranism and Communism have done their work well. Similarly, it is hard to reconcile Luther's tiny deathbed in Eisleben with our outsize sense of the man's historical stature and accomplishments. And only in Germany would there be a chart in the room where Luther died of a heart attack that enumerates his physical complaints and describes a cure he took for one ailment that included the crucial ingredient...
Grace & Mercy. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1483. His father was a tightfisted miner who had fought his way up to foundry owner. Old Hans sent his son to read law at the University of Erfurt, but Martin's sensitive mind became preoccupied with fear for his soul. A nameless, periodic and overwhelming despair seized him. It had been acute for about six months when the lightning struck...
...eleven days the hamlet of Geetingsville,Ind. had offered prayers for Pfc. Robert A. Colby, sentenced to death in Germany after an Army court martial (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week Geetingsville heard what Bobby Colby had done. At Eisleben he had gone AWOL to find a drink, had been given four days' extra labor as punishment. That night he had taken a rifle, shot and killed his company commander and a passing lieutenant...
...however, he could not refuse permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti which had weathered the endurance test...