Word: ernsts
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There were plenty of medals to go around. In the men's giant slalom, Switzerland preserved its skiing pride with a gold and silver from Heini Hemmi, 27, and Ernst Good, 26. The Canadians picked up a surprising gold medal when Kathy Kreiner, 18, won the women's giant slalom. Britain won its only medal in figure skating-but it was an elegant one. Transforming Olympic Stadium into a stage for his lyrical ballet on ice, John Curry, 26, won the men's figure-skating title with as smooth and expressive a free-style exhibition...
Died. Hans Richter, 87, painter, film maker and one of the originators of the Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published...
...AMERICA. Photographs and notes by Ernst Haas. 144 pages. Viking Press. $35. This is a deeply affectionate work: Haas' opening shot of Monument Valley is grand enough to have made John Ford jealous, and his impressionistic multiexposure of nighttime Manhattan should be accompanied by Rhapsody in Blue. More important, the author-photographer knows his territory well enough to make a haunting composition out of a simple line of telephone poles arcing across a bleak valley. In America might be this year's most oblique and intriguing Bicentennial book...
...emperor Constantine, who took many things from many places to his new city of Constantinople, did not move the capitol from Rome(your caption, November 14). It's still in Rome. I have seen it myself. Ernst Badian Professor of History
...Died. Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengel, 88, whose piano playing soothed Adolf Hitler; in Munich. Son of a German art expert, Hanfstaengel was educated at Harvard and in 1921 went back to Germany, where he later became foreign press chief of the Nazi Party. Hanfstaengel broke with Hitler in 1937, spent most of World War II in the U.S., and returned to Germany...