Word: eugenic
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...power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts on all the complexities of modern aviation...
...Yorkers, who are used to a rich musical diet, were not noticeably impressed by the bill-of-fare. Yet on one night last week Manhattan musicgoers, if they liked opera, had a choice of Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...
...duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies. I learned that . . . the Atom Bomb was a development of German science, that Hitler was dead, that given four months Germany could have won, that freedom of speech was a sickness enjoyed by democracies and not compatible to German Natur...
...Eugen, everybody spoke excited German. Voices were raised in beer-hall airs as the schnapps went down (in violation of Navy regulations). By remoter bulkheads, the Nazis held hands with American girls. Empty rye bottles rolled clanking under bunks. The loneliest man on board was the single U.S. Marine guarding the gangplank...
...bluejacket knew, the 574 Nazi crewmen were supposed to be prisoners, due to be returned to Germany under guard while the Eugen was readied for extinction in the Navy's Pacific atomic-bomb experiment. But the eyes of the visitors from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania saw only heroes...