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Nine of our editors have a Ph.D., and no fewer than 21 studied in Europe-five in England (most of them at Oxford), four in France (the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris), four in Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig)- three in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Ireland, one in Italy- and one at the Engineering Institute in Magnitogorsk, Russia...
Leading a varied life as varied as a French Foreign Legionaire, Professor Friedrich came to America in 1922 thoroughly discouraged with the passive and conservative life at Heidelberg. Joining several other European students on a lecture tour of the United States sponsored by the then powerful Youth Movement, he crossed the continent several times and by that time had learned English and had decided to stay. In 1926 he came to Harvard...
Connie Burwell (who studied at the University of Heidelberg after she finished at Sweet Briar) was inside Germany all during the feverish war preparations of 1937-1938-saw Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Goebbels many times-made notes of everything she saw and heard, tore them into strips, smuggled them out of. Germany in her shoes under the noses of the Gestapo...
...includes such crack men as Lieut. Colonel Moses Ralph Kaufman, who before the war had a big Boston practice in psychoanalysis; Major Joseph Fetterman, who used to teach at Western Reserve, Cleveland; Major William Everts of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. The first class included graduates of Frankfurt and Heidelberg, staff men from state hospitals, Rockefeller fellows...
...natural flow and fun springs very largely from the characters and voices of Joe and Pepe. They are neither professors, semanticists nor actors. Joe is huge, hugely bald Joel Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc.), scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent radio style amiably...