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...Died. Georg Jensen, 69, Danish silversmith, called by critics the "greatest craftsman in silver for the last 300 years"; in Copenhagen...
Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
With such backing any conference could do much. Star Delegates who worked each other up to more and more spacious plans included Editor Samuel Margoshes of Manhattan's Yiddish newsorgan The Day and such eminent Jews escaped from the German Fatherland as Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Georg Bernhard. Sessions were mostly secret. Leaks grew more and more exciting. Finally correspondents flashed that a "Super-Government" of World Jewry was in course of formation...
Francois de Wendell comes legitimately by his present power and position; his family have been Europe's armorers since before the French Revolution--although the De Wendels have not always been French nor, even always the De Wendels. There was once a Johann Georg von Wendel, who in the seventeenth century was a colonel in the armies of Ferdinand III of Germany. Since his time, however, the family generally has preferred to remain out of uniform, on the theory that in uniform there is no higher title or power than that of general; whereas by the process of foregoing...
This international hermaphrodites is not a now family trait. The son of Johann Georg von Wendel, who fought for the German Ferdinand III blossomed late Christian de Wendel, who was a follower of Charles IV of Lorraine. For a good period of years the family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were...