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...Hermann Johansson. Soph., Sweden. Good shooter. Great skier. Loves travelling and playing "Jale." Known, of course, as "the Swede...
Engineer Paul Hermann, a 3-0 victim at number six to Harvard's Bill Parsons, felt respect for the nation's top-ranked squad...
Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Cornell University Astronomer Thomas Gold has forged a distinguished career by believing six impossible things before breakfast. In the late 1940s, he, Astronomer Fred Hoyle and Mathematician Hermann Bondi roiled the cosmological community when they countered an early version of the big-bang theory of the universe with their steady state model, which stipulated the continual creation of matter (a concept now completely out of favor). In 1968 Gold was the first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right...
...provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...German contradiction is also embodied by Wagner, who wrote the noxious anti-Semitic essay Jewry in Music, yet who also allowed Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of the Christian epic Parsifal at Bayreuth. Faust, the national symbol, might be speaking for both Luther and Wagner when he says at the beginning of Goethe's play, "With keen endeavor I have studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, and even, alas, theology. And yet here I stand, a poor fool no wiser than I was before...