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Faculty and students and administrators live and eat and study in Leopoldskron, an amazing castle whose life Salzburgians say only the arrival of the Seminar saved. Built in 1740 by Archbishop Firmian for his nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death...
Ancient Way. When living alone, the cells are amoebae, and impossible to distinguish from other amoebae which have never learned to cooperate. They crawl slowly at random, grazing on bacteria. When one grows large, it divides in two by the cheerless, asexual mode of multiplication for which amoebae are famous. This is the ancient way of life, before cooperation...
...general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs, so that the muscles operated the fingers. His operations on the heart, in cancer and in bone-grafting are almost equally famous...
...garden and greenhouse. All over the world, horticulturists were discovering exciting new plants. A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...
...noise its advertisers would buy. Last week, an advertiser showed that he considered the station's silence worth paying for. When WKYW signs off for the night, an announcer now says: "The next eleven hours of silence are sponsored by the Logan Co., makers of the famous Sleep Haven Mattress. . . . Good night-and good rest." Price of the smart spot announcement: just $6 a night...