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...young man he came under the influence of Friedrich Naumann, long a leader in the German Liberal movement. Heuss met pretty Elly Knapp in the Naumann movement ("If Naumann had turned Buddhist," she said later, "I would have followed him into that, too"). Heuss and Elly were married by their close friend Albert Schweitzer, later to become the great humanitarian missionary and philosopher (TiME, July...
Later he actually wanted to be an actor, but failed; from play-acting he turned to playwriting. He read widely and weirdly; like Friedrich Schiller's heroes, he considered himself a rebel; like Kierkegaard, a pessimystic; like Darwin, a scientist; like Goethe's Faust, he turned to black magic (which he practiced in his attic). When he was crossed, he would roam the woods lashing at branches and hacking down young trees; sometimes he would climb a tree and yell defiance at the universe...
...Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
Married. Princess Cecilia of Germany, 31, daughter of German ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...