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...ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. A flawed but massive and cumulatively fascinating chronicle links Europe's most famous weaponmaking family with Germany's persistent thrust toward world power...
Since 1962, an organization named The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau Ltd. has been analyzing all monster sightings. Its volunteer members have shot pictures of monsterlike objects from seven lakeside camera stations. The most famous Loch Ness photograph, taken by a touring surgeon in 1934, shows a long-necked creature making waves in the lake...
...peephole pettiness, the story stirs the mind like a psychological melodrama and flows as smoothly as any contrived 18th century novel of manners. Whoever was right, whatever their pangs and posturings, the Ruskins emerge as vivid and graceful correspondents. If no book like this ever celebrates the famous domestic wrangles of the present day for future readers, part of the blame must be placed on the telephone...
That difficulty is understandable. Switzerland owes its famous banking prowess to the soundness of its currency, the secrecy of its financial men and the neutrality of its politicians. Numbered accounts were introduced in the 1930s to thwart Nazi Germany from hunting down assets hidden abroad by its citizens, mostly German Jews. As a rule, only one or two top bank officers know the identity of holders of such accounts. Under Swiss law, those who do know have a "duty to observe silence of professional secrecy." Otherwise they face a fine of up to $5,000 and six months in jail...
...ruthless efficiency. Gustav's only diversion seems to have been reading timetables for typographical errors. He allocated precisely 60 minutes a week to playing with his children-for his day was devoted to building the world's first and biggest fleet of U-boats and the famous 420-mm. cannon, sentimentally called "Big Bertha" after his wife. Before World War I, Gustav thriftily licensed Britain's Vickers company to make Krupp time fuses, provided that Vickers paid him one shilling threepence per shell fired. In the turmoil of trench warfare, the shell count was forgotten. But after...