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...took decades to get them back. When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back, on the casuistic ground that although Feininger had "intellectual ownership" of the paintings, he, Klumpp, was their "actual physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died...
...Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania to do the mind-numbing mathematics necessary for calculating trajectories. As soon as the project was completed, the ENIAC was moved to the BRL. Its progress and subsequent utilization were under the direct supervision of a series of BRL commanders, i.e., then Colonels Hermann Zornig, Leslie Simon and Alden Taber. Norman T. Dennis Colonel,U.S.A. (ret.) Pensacola, Fla. Nigeria's New Start...
...time actor, was a firm supporter of an accord that he said would create "genuine constituencies for peace." On the Soviet side, there has been what one State Department official terms "a marked change in attitude. They have taken an active, positive role. There is an altogether different attitude." Hermann also detects their keen desire to make the exchange agreement work. "They're bending over backwards," she says...
...behind Hammer and Fitzpatrick came a parade of other Americans, hoping to sign up everything from the Bolshoi Ballet to dancing bears--so long as they growled in Russian. "Neither the American nor the Soviet government was prepared for the onslaught of interest," says Hermann. "Everyone with two nickels to rub together wants to be the next Sol Hurok." Many of those would-be impresarios may be disappointed, however, and it is harder to make a profit from touring companies today. Says Lee Lament, president of ICM Artists, which once presented many of the Soviet troupes: "With the rising cost...
...Hermann ranks second in the Ivy League to Yale hurler Josh Sowers with...