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...SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)-Hermann Broch-Pantheon...
...masters; of a heart ailment; in Amsterdam. Painter Van Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...
When World War II broke out, he was worth an estimated $50 to $100 million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
...sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George Seaver, Albert Schweitzer, the Man and His Mind (Harper; $3.75). Published last fortnight was a third book: Albert Schweitzer, an Anthology, edited by Charles R. Joy (Beacon Press & Harper...
Departures from the strictly local fare were satisfying; Holst's "Suite for Band" gave Holmes a chance to show the individual excellence of his players, as tubas, trombones, trumpets and horns in turn carried the theme of the first movement, while the sole trumpet of Robert Hermann stood out brilliantly in the restrained Intermezzo which gave way to full volume and brilliance for the final March. Hermann showed his excellent tone and tongue control in threading his way through the delicate phrasing of Morton Gould's "Pavanne...