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...made his fortune in gold mining. Accompanying him was black-haired, swarthy Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilesco, who lost a fortune in coal mining. If anything good was coming to Rumania from Germany, Gigurtu was the man to get it. As a youth he studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Germany, has kept his old German friends and made many more. He has long advocated closer economic cooperation between Germany and Rumania in the belief that they are geographically best suited to cooperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Sales Talks at Salzburg | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/24/1937 | See Source »

High scorer of the rifle bout was Elkan Turk, Jr. '39, who made 270 out of 300. Others of the five Crimson musketeers who counted were Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '39, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr. '38, John J. Whoriskey, Jr. '38, and Harry A. Freiberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOOTERS NOSED OUT | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked up a knowledge of boxing that later stood him in good stead. Because he wanted an outdoor job, and some-thing with an adventurous spice in it, he decided to be a mining engineer. After three years in Germany, at the Freiberg Royal School of Mines, he went back to the U. S. West to seek his fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold-Digger | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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