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TIDINGS (302 pp.)-Ernst Wiechert-Macmillan...
...late Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was one of the last of a vanished breed of German writers-romantic in feeling, mystical in outlook, spendthrift in prose (in his 63 years he wrote 60 books, none of them very well known in the U.S.). When Hitler came to power, Wiechert backed one of the dictator's most detested internal enemies, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, and paid for it with five months in Buchenwald concentration camp followed by years of enforced silence. Tidings, Wiechert's posthumous novel (first published in Germany in 1953) is the fruit of his musings...
...Many Books? As of this week, the boys were mum about their financial backing, but one known angel is Investor Richard Ernst, a former Knopf employee (in the sales department) who is married to Department Store Heiress Susan Bloomingdale. As for father Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed...
...ERNST R. MILLER-KLINKMULLER...
...over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must...