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Professor of English and Comparative Literature Walter J. Kaiser may be known about Harvard for his expensive suits, but thanks to M Magazine, University Librarian Sidney Verba '53 has gained nationwide fame for his inexpensive jackets...
...Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist. As Britain battles with the Kaiser's troops from 1914 to 1918, nationalism mounts to a frenzy. The playwright-polemicist refuses to be carried along. "War reduces us all to a common level of savagery and vulgarity," he writes to a colleague, "but at least we can shew how foolish the whole business is even from the point of view of British and German Junkerdom." In the hysteria of conflict this dual indictment earns Shaw the enmity of his countrymen. Friends cut him dead; libraries remove his books from their...
...A.I.L.A.'s San Diego chapter. "There is an enormous amount to be made if you're crooked." Five lawyers have been convicted or sentenced this year on charges stemming from immigration-law violations. Two have been disbarred. The best known of the high-profile immigration lawyers, Gerald Kaiser of New York City, was indicted in April by a federal grand jury in Florida for allegedly defrauding other lawyers, who paid as much as $60,000 to join his national chain of immigration-law firms...
...Checkpoint Charlie, the hideous maw of the Berlin Wall gapes briefly, affording a narrow passage into the divided German soul. On its Western side, a sea of sensuous color rushes down the Kurfurstendamm, past the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and spends itself violently but impotently in a scatological orgy of graffiti against the cold barrier. On the Eastern side, a pall hangs over the city, reflected in the rigorously functional, regimented gray apartment blocks that line the streets. Propelled by the engine of the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing...
...Liquidator. Irwin Jacobs, 43, has trained his takeover artillery on such corporate giants as ITT, Pabst Brewing, Kaiser Steel and Disney Productions. He was in an earlier phase of the Phillips battle but sold his 4.6 million shares for a sizable profit shortly before last week's voting...