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...Prussian - born philosopher -- called Protestantism's number one philosopher two years ago by "Time" magazine--has been at Union since 1933, when his professorship at the University of Frankfurt was taken from him by the Nazis...
...midst of a widening fame, Rosenzweig was stricken with a neuromuscular disease which paralyzed him. For eight years he lived on in his Frankfurt apartment, finally unable to speak or move, except for some power of movement in his right thumb. Even with the aid of his wife and nurses, he could write only by moving his thumb over a plate containing letters of the alphabet...
Their trip was an outrageously brash performance, but it got results of a sort. In Frankfurt, Cohn charged that Theodore Kaghan, in the U.S. High Commissioner's Public Affairs Division, had "once signed a Communist Party petition." Kaghan jeered at Cohn & Schine as "junketeering gumshoes." Two weeks later, Kaghan was called home by the State Department and fired...
...Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, more directly concerned with Germany's order books, opened a massive trade fair in Frankfurt with a message to thousands of foreign visitors. "The German people," said he, "must not be blamed for the fact that they work harder than others. It is narrow-minded for the rest of the world to fear German competition...
RONSON, biggest U.S. manufacturer of cigarette lighters (1953 sales: about $20,000,000), is going into the electric-razor market. The company has signed a $15,000,000 licensing agreement with the Max Braun Co. of Frankfurt, Germany to make a self-sharpening electric razor. The razor will first be marketed in April. Price...