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Against towering Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playmg intimate of Adolf Hitler Bostonian Francis Wilson filed suit for $1,800, charged that he had advanced that sum for the education of Putzi's son at Harvard, never got it back. Son Egon Hanfstaengl left Harvard last year to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. His father was last heard from in a Canadian concentration camp...
...help feeling a little taken aback after reading your article [TIME, Feb. 10] on Heine-reading, bench-sitting Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl...
...Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl ("Putzi's" son but a patriotic U. S. citizen) got down to 200 Ib. before he was taken into the Air Corps. He is now a buck private in training at Maxwell Field in Alabama. Weight range for Air Corps recruits: 115 to 200 Ib. Height range: 5 ft. to 6 ft. 4 in. Requirements for pilots are narrower but not rigidly denned-i.e., they must be well-balanced physical specimens...
Conant's opposition to Germany was first expressed in 1934 when he refused the offer of a scholarship from Ernest F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, then-time high Nazi official and close buddy of Hitler. In a public letter to him, President Conant said, "We 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...
Said young Hanfstaengl, "I feel purged of the ideas which were on the way to making me a Hitler barbarian. It's wonderful to live where you can sit on a park bench and read Heine and other authors barred by the Nazis...