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...ROOSEVELT FAMILY OF SAGAMORE HILL (435 pp.)-Hermann Hagedorn-Macmillan...
Only one man has unclean hands in Kesselring's book: Ribbentrop. Who was responsible for the war? "I must lay the blame on one man: Von Ribbentrop, who gave Hitler irresponsible advice." What's more, says Kesselring, Hermann Göring agreed. On the day Hitler announced Sept. 1, 1939 as X-day. Göring rang up Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and bawled into the phone: "Now you've got your war. It's all your doing...
Father of the science of astronautics, according to its devotees, is Hermann Oberth, 59. While teaching school in Rumania in 1923, Oberth published The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a book explaining many principles that enthusiastic space men still use in their projects to fly to the moon. Herr Oberth is now a rather seedy father of space flight. Gaunt and brooding, he lives in a dilapidated ancestral castle near Nürnberg...
Died. Dr. Otto Hermann Diels, 78, retired German organic chemist who, with his ex-pupil, Dr. Kurt Alder, received the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry after developing the diene synthesis, a method of artificially producing complex chemical compounds (e.g., cortisone); in Kiel, Germany...
...Roosevelt Collections came to Widener through the efforts of Hermann Hagedorn '07, a personal friend of Roosevelt and director and secretary of the Memorial Association since its formation. From 1922 until 1943, the collection had been installed in a building next door to Roosevelt House, 28 East 20th Street, in New York City. With the coming of World War Two, wartime inflation and the death of many members led the association to donate the collection to the University. But it came to Widener only after strong competition from William J. Crawford of Cleveland, who at the time owned the largest...