Word: hanfstaengl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egon L. S. Hanfstaengl, son of Ernst F. "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09, one-time personal pianist to Adolf Hitler, and Nazi press chief, may enter Harvard in the fall, it was revealed yesterday in the thirtieth anniversary report for the class...
Francis A. Harding of Watertown, secretary of the class of 1909, disclosed that Hanfstaengl senior had written him a letter in March in which he expressed a desire that his son, now in his last year at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, should come to Harvard next September...
...Hanfstaengl was involved in a sensational controversy with Harvard five years ago when his offer of a special Hanfstaengl scholarship was turned down by President Conant and the Corporation because of the donor's close affiliation with the Nazi movement...
...letter to Hanfstaengl on September 24, 1934, the President said, "The Corporation are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the universities of Germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe fundamental to universities throughout the world...
Year ago the New Republic described bullocky Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime Nazi publicist, as "Hitler's boy friend." Last week Putzi, exiled in London, lost a libel suit against Selfridge & Co., department store which sold his secretary a copy containing the article. The judge, commenting, "Hanfstaengl will leave this court with as clean a character as . . . any man could have," ruled that nobody had libeled Putzi, assessed him the costs of the case...