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Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...
...Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate as a male. If 60% are feminine, you sit with the girls. All combinations are possible up to 99 and 1, but the 100 percenter is a myth. Dr. Hartmann says...
...core of his poem, he took the story of "Der Arme Heinrich" a tale led by Hartmann von der Ane, a German nidnnesinger of the twelfth century. It the elaboration of this story says Longfellow. "I have tried to show. . ., among other things, that through the darkness and corruption of the Middle As ran a bright, deep stream of Faith, strong enough for all the exigencies of his and death...
There are in the U. S. 32 patent religions definitely organized, according to the latest compilation (Hartmann's Who's Who). These support 123 publications and buy the several thousands of books put out by 813 authors...