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When the former WAVE appeared at the Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles, she weighed 315 Ibs., spread thick over a 5-ft. 6-in. frame. Dr. Ernst Drenick was delighted to see her. For years he had been studying the metabolic mysteries of obesity, and had rounded up ten of California's fattest male veterans-one a balloon-shaped 550 Ibs.-as volunteers. The WAVE would help them discover what difference sex might make in a grueling experiment to find out the value and effects of total starvation as a means of reducing...
...there he developed into the finest organist of his time. In Weimar he wrote some of his most glorious music: the "Great" Preludes and Fugues in A Minor and C Minor, the C Major and F Major Toccatas and Fugues. Required by his contract as concertmaster to Duke Wilhelm Ernst to turn out "one new piece monthly," he produced 19 cantatas in three years, a deadline-crowding achievement that attuned him to his tenure in Leipzig, where he composed something like 265 cantatas in 21 years...
...pogrom had been inspired by the assassination of German Diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a 17-year-old stateless Jew named Hershel Grynszpan.* It was, Joseph Goebbels told Hitler, a propaganda opportunity equal to that of the Reichstag fire. Hitler agreed, and the Storm Troopers were released for their "spontaneous" action, while regular police turned their backs. Both German television networks last week filled their peak viewing hours with programs mercilessly reminding Germans of what they had allowed to happen. Leading newspapers devoted entire pages to recollecting in detail the horrors of Kristallnacht...
ANDRE DERAIN-Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...