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...living legend, whose very name might have been lifted from E. Phillips Oppenheim. He was the stage version of the foreign correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded in two. He had been a working newspaperman for 62 years...
Part newsman, part showman, Von Wiegand brought to foreign correspondence a Sunday-supplement excitement that never waned. When the Hearst papers chartered the Graf Zeppelin in 1929 for a global flight, Von Wiegand, at 55, was as eager to ride it as he was to rush to Manila early in December 1941, at 67, sensing another war. And when war broke out, Karl von Wiegand stood so close to it-at the end of Manila's Pier 7 during a Japanese bomber attack-that concussion permanently damaged the retinas of both eyes. Captured later by the Japanese in company...
...Moscow, Corbu built a ten-story glass-walled office building that survived two decaded of Stalinist criticism as anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look...
Other officers chosen in the College-wide election Tuesday and Wednesday include Patience Byram '62, of Henry House and Abingdon, Ill., vice-president; Barbara J. Graf '62 of Warner House and Minneapolis, Minn., National Student Association delegate; and Georgette M. Ramos '63, of Everett House and Newport, R.I., secretary...
Barbara J. Graf '62 cited opportunities in NSA which Radcliffe ignores. SGA should make the student body aware of these possibilities, she said. Miss Graf thought a pre-conference referendum impractical, however. "It would reflect what a Radcliffe girl would say if she cared--a hypothetical situation anyway...