Word: haber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singles Breese defeated Epstein (C.C.N.Y.), 6-2, 6-3; Hill defeated Weir (C.C.N.Y.), 6-3, 0-6, 10-8; R. L. Tower 21 defeated Morgenstein (C.C.N.Y.), 6-2, 6-1: D. M. Frame '32 defeated Haber (C.C.N.Y.), 6-0, 6-2; K. B. Daggett '30 defeated Wolfe (C.C.N.Y...
...KING HABER-Alfred Neumann-Alfred H. King...
...historical romances now are being written by the Germans: Author Neumann, one of the youngest historian-romancers, is one of the best. His The Devil (Der Teufel) written on the same subject as Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, made Quentin Durward seem like a nursery tale. King Haber (Konig Haber) is a collection of three stories, more like condensed novels than short stories, written several years ago, now translated for the first time...
...King Haber was a Jewish banker of doubtful antecedents, who rose to great power in a German grand duchy,,became the lover of the Grand Duchess, father of her child. When the hostile nobility banded against him he saved the Grand Duchess by sacrificing his infant son, inviting death for himself. "The Patriot" (Der Patriot) is the story from which was taken the famed cinema of the same name (in which Cinemactor Emil Jannings played the mad Emperor Paul). It is the story of Count Fahlen, cold and cynical military governor of St. Petersburg, who played a complicated conspirator...
Author Alfred Neumann, 35, is a Prussian, now lives in Munich. He made a reputation with Der Patriot (1925), Konig Haber (1926), won the Kleist Prize (1926) with Der Teufel. Other books: Die Rebellen, Rebels, Guerra (translation to be published this spring...