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Last week the British press, constantly grasping at peace straws, again rumored that German overtures may soon be made via Italy to the Allies. There was no confirmation of this in Rome, where II Duce received last week Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler was said to have received from Premier Mussolini a "personal message" for Chancellor Hitler, but the Gestapo chief busied himself mainly about technical aspects of the option now being exercised by inhabitants of the Italian Tyrol of choosing on or before Dec. 31 whether to remain Italian subjects or be transported free to Germany...
...three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy...
...daughter of a onetime professor. As a young girl she was apprenticed to Munich Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, the Führer's old friend and official photographer, who was an acquaintance of the Braun family. A vivacious blonde, she used to mix cocktails and play the accordion for Hitler and the struggling Nazi group. "Today," says the Post, "Evi considers her accordion undignified and plays only the mandolin...
Highlighting the afternoon session is Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of Germany and now a lecturer in Government. Of all speakers on the war situation Bruening has been the most sought after this fall because of his particular capability of prognosticating the economic set-up within Germany as a result of his experience, particularly with agricultural economy, as chancellor and before...
Surrounded by such dignitaries as President Conant, Alfred North Whitehead, Heinrich Bruening, Dean Hanford, and host Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Harvard's president from 1909 to 1933 performed the now traditional ceremony of cutting his birthday cake, which was brought in by famed Bellboy hostess Mrs. Mary Healey...