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...accused of being a collaborationist because he had sold Hermann Göring a priceless Vermeer. Van Meegeren pleaded guilty to forging the picture: instead of trafficking with the enemy, he had tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...
...themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...
...atom bombs do not do the job first, the human race may destroy itself just as effectively in a slower, subtler way. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nobel-Biologist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University warned that even the peaceful use of atomic energy may kill off the human species by loading its germ plasm with too many "mutated" genes...
Though raised under Naziism, young Nickel satisfied the Military Government people that he was no Nazi. Explained Hermann solemnly: "The merit is not my own. I owe my understanding to my parents. If I had had Nazi parents, I would have been a Nazi...
...tobacco merchant, Hermann attended Pastor Niemöller's Evangelical Church, spent most of the war years in school. After being inducted into an antiaircraft unit with his teachers and entire class, he decided that he was "willing not to fight for Hitler" and soon deserted. Hermann, who thinks the trouble with his countrymen is that they have been educated in "servile obedience," hopes to bring back some of the Schenectady spirit with...