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Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem who once challenged Hermann Goring to an air duel, once cracked up Haile Selassie's plane at the royal feet, enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private. "My blood tests," he reported to the press, "came back perfect, negative, and excellent...
Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rohrschach started something when he began making blot-pictures, by folding a piece of paper on a blob of ink. He showed the "pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...
Yamashita inspected the broken Maginot Line and German fortifications on the French coast. He watched German flyers in training. He is said to have persuaded Hermann Goring, for whom he had wangled a decorative bauble, the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, to let him fly in a raid over Britain...
Adolf Hitler appointed a successor to Rudolf Hess as second in the Nazi line of succession, following porcine Hermann Goring. The world had heard little of the appointee, Martin Bormann, but he was soundly qualified...
...Most likely second victim: drug manufacturer Schering Corp. (sulfa drugs, hormones, antishock vaccines), Swiss-controlled since Hermann Goring ordered its German parent to sell its U.S. stock interest five years ago. Month ago, the Treasury stripped Schering of eight top executives; last week Schering got a new Treasury-approved vice president and director: Gerald E. Donovan of Schroder Rockefeller...