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Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
...Jersey: Republicans decisively picked conservative Alfred E. Driscoll, organization gubernatorial candidate, over pudgy, flamboyant Harold G. Hoffman. Hoffman, in uniform during both World Wars, hammered at his opponent's lack of a war record. Driscoll hammered more tellingly at Hoffman's erratic conduct as governor during the Hauptmann trial and his connections with Democratic Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City...
When asked if he believed his work could be adequately translated to another language, Auden commented that he is currently editing a book of translation for Viking. He added, "In translation a man's work must be re-made in another language and re-done in each generation. Hauptmann is well translated, but Goe the very badly, and I've never seen a good translation of Baudelaire...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's son Manfred was left $500 by an 85-year-old New Jersey spinster who didn't know him but pitied him for being "handicapped" and wanted to help him in "his unequal struggle for existence." The twelve-year-old son of the Lindbergh kidnapper was last in the public eye in 1940, when he got $15,000 in Rochester, N.Y. for accident injuries. His benefactress also left $3,000 "for the care and protection of cats...
...blonde smiled again: "Exactly-the circus is a cultural institution. Would not the captain come to see the bears? They are fine bears, and they are quartered close to my own room. Perhaps a way could be found that such fine bears would not have to starve. Surely, Herr Hauptmann, you have a dining room here...