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Engineers of the German Union for Colonial Technique are preparing a 50-year plan for Africa "on a scientific basis and, for the time being, without regard to the political constellation." Root ideas of the plan are those of Geophysicist Hermann Soergel of Munich. A conservation specialist, Herr Soergel points to the "tragic desiccation" of Africa caused by the fact that many rivers-such as the Orange, Cunene, Zambezi, Limpopo-once watered great interior basins, but have gradually gnawed through mountain ridges and now empty into the sea. Herr Soergel would rehydrate Africa by several giant schemes...
...Night, which has already pushed beyond the 400,000 mark. The man who could tell them how it was done is Alliance's President Henry Gunther Koppell, 46, who in two years has steered Alliance from a resounding flop with its first novel (Hermann Kesten's The Children of Guernica) to resounding success with Out of the Night. His formula: 1) "I don't believe in top-heavy lists just for the turnover"; 2) (wiggling his digits) "I have a finger feeling for the trends." The rest is promotion, publicity, hard work, Kombinations fähigkeit...
...supposed to symbolize a tie between the Old World and the New) began in 1938 as a representative for various German publishing houses in exile. Next year Koppell decided to concentrate on books in English. His fifth book (first was Norbert Muhlen's life of Schacht) was Hermann Rauschning's best-selling Revolution of Nihilism. He also published Boris Souvarine's Stalin, began Alliance's Face of America books about the U.S. Among his latest are Rauschning's The Redemption of Democracy (TIME, March 3), Patten's Mr. Frank Merriwell (see col. 1), Wells...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards for this year are: Edward Austin fellowships to Ernst Berliner 1G and Hermann D. A. M. Noether 2G; and Thayer fellowships to Alexander G. Nickle 3G and Bernard A. Orkin...
...Hermann Joseph Muller, at the University of Texas, using Drosophila (fruit flies), proved that X-rays also have profound genetic effects. Piercing the nucleus of a living cell, they can destroy or rearrange the genes which determine the inherited characteristics of all new life. But, observes Dr. Failla, "All living organisms are subjected to ionizing radiations throughout their life." Chief sources are 1) potassium, a mildly radioactive element found in all cells, 2) cosmic rays, which constantly penetrate each human being...