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Thomas Mann's latest book is dedicated to his good friend, Dr. Heinrich Zimmer, ex-Heidelberg Orientalist, with the words "Returned with thanks." Mann owed Zimmer his plot: a Hindu legend which Dr. Zimmer (who now lives in New Rochelle, N.Y.) had outlined in a lecture on Kali, the Mother Goddess of India, in Switzerland in 1938. The legend...
...school. Mr. Barnes endowed his Foundation with $6,000,000, gathered one of the world's most impressive collections of Cezannes, Renoirs, Picassos, Matisses. A salty and original character, Albert Barnes worked his way through University of Pennsylvania Medical School by playing semi-pro baseball, studied at Heidelberg. Now he teaches appreciation of the fine arts to 150 students, whom he selects with great care, lectures to explosively. Around his Italian Renaissance building and twelve acres stands a ten-foot spite wall, erected when a suburban development sprang up next to his school...
...failed, the Nazis just dropped their bombs at random. Plenty of bombs missed their intended marks and struck at innocence. The Germans also bombed the ancient stone lace of Cambridge University as "the only way of making the British realize the insanity of such attacks as that staged on Heidelberg...
...perfect posture, a walk as slinky as a stripteaser's. Mata Hari was much interested in the surgery being done on a young French soldier whose nose had been mutilated. Else LaRoe watched the operation, too, and her interest in plastic surgery dawned. She went to Heidelberg's medical school, started on general surgery interspersed with birth-control work in Russia. Her birth-control book published in Germany has been burned by the Nazis. She settled down to plastic surgery 15 years ago, emigrated to the plastically profitable...
Other signs of German conviction that peace is just around the corner were the preparations in German tourist offices throughout the world for a late summer season. Brand-new "Visit Heidelberg and the Rhineland" posters appeared in their windows and leaflets were circulated announcing that the Bayreuth Wagnerian Festival would be held this year as usual, featuring Wagner's Parsifal, one of the few German operas extolling peace...