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Most amateur astronomers seem a little queer to the millions of people who seldom lift up their eyes from the grimy streets of the minor planet they live on. Nor can most amateurs explain why stargazing fascinates them. But Ferdinand Hartmann, an amateur who shares his findings on variable stars with the Harvard Observatory, has an answer: "It's like why does a person become religious...
Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them...
Prince Louis Ferdinand, 33-year-old grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and onetime mechanic in the Ford plant at Detroit, now an officer in the German air corps, was reported a prisoner of war in Canada...
Columbus' Journal is also missing. But a copy found its way to Columbus' contemporary biographer, Bartolome de Las Casas, who abstracted from it the text we have today. The same or another copy was used by Ferdinand Columbus (the Admiral's bastard son), who quoted long passages in writing his father's life. Professor Morison believes that these and other data are contemporary documentation enough. The real confusion about Columbus, he believes, has been caused by more recent biographies written by "armchair admirals" who know nothing about...
...tragedy of blood in which there are too many acts. The perpetual, sterile hunt for gold; the extermination or enslavement of the Indians; the bitter intrigues of Columbus' rivals; his failure as a colonizer and governor; his return to Spain in irons; his loss of the confidence of Ferdinand and Isabella. . . . Everything went wrong. He discovered the Venezuelan pearl fisheries, which might have retrieved his reputation in Spain; but he did not realize what he had found, and a few months later a rival began to work them. In Panama he found gold, but could not get the metal...