Word: jakobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First move in Mrs. Colledge's plot to make her daughter a world-champion skater was to remove her from school, take her to Norway for expert skating instruction. The next year the Colledges stayed in London and Cecilia's training was entrusted to Swiss Jakob Gerschweiler. He lived in the Colledge home, told Cecilia what to eat, taught her not only skating but also French and German. For eleven months a year for the next eight years Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages...
...Wickham says in his preface, this volume of photographs of Renaissance artistic monuments may well be used as a handy supplement illustrating, as it were, works like those of J. A. Symonds and Jakob Burckhardt on the Italian achievement during the XVth and XVIth centuries. It is the first book in a series entitled "Life and Art in Photographs," and if all the succeeding volumes are as good as this, one hopes that the series will cease only at the crack o' doom. Such praise is excessive, to be sure, but it is with genuine ardor that one turns these...
Publisher Messner had been sold the idea by an energetic literary agent named Sanford Greenburger, whose other clients included the late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
...Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...
...went, calling out the names of practically every modern German author with whom the outside world is familiar: Karl Marx, Jakob Wassermann, Albert Einstein, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger. Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Walther Rathenau...