Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper homage to his life and presence as well as his art was the double take. In the midst of a movement, surrealism, which specialized in attention-getting stunts, political embroilments, sexual scandals and fervid half-religious crises, Magritte-next to Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, the best surrealist painter -seemed to be all phlegm and stolidity. He lived in respectable Brussels; he stayed married to the same woman, Georgette Berger, for the rest of his life; by the standards of the Paris art world in the '30s, he might as well have been a grocer. Yet Magritte possessed...
...DIED. Ernst Wolf Mommsen, 68, West German industrialist and former aide to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf. A successful 25-year veteran of the Ruhr steel business, Mommsen in 1970 joined then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...
...difficult and important area. It is our opinion that the success of the fund-raising process may not suffer should the name of the library be changed. It may be instructive to look at changed. It may be instructive to look at history. In the case of Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl '09, who made a public offer to the University in 1934 of the Hanfstaengl Travelling Fellowship, President Conant's ('14) public rejection of the money because of the donor's association with the Nazi Party was widely publicized. However, no widespread revulsion towards the University followed. If we felt...
...Ernst F. Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a generous member of the Harvard Class of 1909 with a "perennial affection for Harvard, Boston and New England...
...traveling Harvard man, wandering by a little apartment on Berlin's Thierschastrasse during the early 1930s might have heard a tune to warm his heart. Inside, in the apartment of Adolf Hitler, Ernst Hanfstaengl would sit at the piano and hammer out the melody of "Harvardiana." But the passer-by might wonder at the lyrics; To honor der Fuehrer, Hanfy had changed the words a bit. Instead of the traditional repeating "Harvard" chorus, Hanfstaengl would bellow out "Sieg Heil" again and again...