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...understandable horror of his own bamboo-jointed name: Horst Rüdiger Karl August Ernst Georg Cristoph Fabious von Gugel Brandt und Dippolsdorf. True, it showed his patrician lineage, but it would never squeeze into a corner of his surrealist canvases. So he reduced it to plain Rolf Gugel. Plain Rolf's name is being heard often these days in Germany...
...Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop...
...others took the stand; they said much the same thing. There was practical, slight Ernst Brennscheidt, a civilian government employee who might have been working in Berlin today if he had not been sent to Sachsenhausen to test army shoes. His methods were simple. For 14 hours a day, beating them when they dropped, he had marched prison inmates carrying 50-lb. sandbags around & around a half-mile track until the shoes wore out. Then he knew which shoes were faulty...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26, heads up an endeavor equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner--in the Institute's three pioneer years--when...
...author of the quantum theory lived long enough to see his discovery affect all branches of science and all human life. Last week Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 89, one of history's greatest discoverers, died...