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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...
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...
...photographer; in 1937, a Professor, a title which in Germany no more denotes pedagogy than it does on the U. S. vaudeville stage. For five years he has been a constant companion and sometime adviser of the ReichsFührer, helping to fill the place once occupied by "Putzy" Hanfstaengl, whose piano was not so successful an instrument of flattery as Heinrich Hoffmann's Leica...
...became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed. (He introduced her to the Führer, but nothing came of it.) She attended the Reichstag trial, other social events that were much duller...