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Professor Emil Staiger of the University of Zurich will deliver a lecture tonight in German entitled "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und die symbolistische Poesie." The lecture, under the auspices of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will be given in Room 11, Sever Hall...
Died. E. H. Ferdinand Porsche, 75, German car designer of both flashy racers for collectors and Hitler's cheap, beetle-shaped Volkswagen; of a stroke; in Stuttgart...
...Pail." Managing Editor Jones snapped up the news coverage. He hired good reporters and rewrite men to turn out crisp, accurate copy, set up the Post's national bureau to cover official Washington. Now staffed by such old-timers as Eddie Folliard, Al Friendly and Ferdinand Kuhn (at State), it is still one of the capital's best bureaus...
...resigned from G.E. "in 40 seconds" to be one of Donald Nelson's vice chairmen of the War Production Board. ("Hell's loose, and I've got to do something about it," said Wilson.) Right off, he began battling with Manhattan Investment Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, one of Nelson's ablest assistants, over methods of getting the most out of U.S. corporations. Their differences of approach eventually boiled down to the question of which man would go and which would stay. Nelson ruled for Wilson and fired Eberstadt, although Wilson later came to praise (and use) Eberstadt...
Whatever the original idea, the grace and contrapuntal vigor of the concertos have delighted musicians ever since. Some famous performances: Chopin, playing with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller; Clara Wieck (later Schumann) with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles...