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...last days of one of the world's best-known modern heroines, little was known except that she had died, like millions of other Jews, in a German concentration camp. To fill out the chronicle of her short life, West German Publisher S. Fischer last year assigned Author Ernst Schnabel to search the German and Dutch archives and interview survivors of the camps who might have known her. In Paris Le Figaro Littéraire printed excerpts from Schnabel's findings, to be published as a book in the U.S. this fall...
...while, it was being tracked from the ground in four different electronic ways, and Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, German-born rocket expert, was waiting for a complicated instrumental setup to tell him the exact time to ignite the second stage and "inject" the satellite into its orbit. When the shortened assembly reached about 200 miles altitude and was pointing in the right direction, he pressed a button...
...found freedom from the need for daily needlework. Last week the Upjohn Co. (which markets the drug as Orinase) decided to lay on the line just what it will and will not do. To its Kalamazoo headquarters Upjohn invited 500 physicians to hear reports from Germany's Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, one of the first investigators to use the drug, and from Chicago's Dr. Rachmiel Levine, one of the world's top researchers into the mysteries of sugar metabolism...
...Died. Ernst Heinkel, 70. German airplane pioneer, designer (with a propulsion unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...blowtorch intensity, and offered her on the spot the lead in the picture he was casting. She took the job, and pretty soon any number of Herzen, as the romantic rumors had it, were beating in Dreivierteltakt. She was simultaneously supposed to be in love with Producer Ernst Lothar, with a cameraman named Günther Anders, and with the famous star of the Burgtheater, Attila Hörbiger. In any case, the picture (The Angel with the Trumpet) somehow got made, and she was so good in it that the producers were soon pounding at her door...