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Killed in Action. Brigadier Frederick Hermann Kisch, 64, the British Eighth Army's chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Palestine, or easily available all over Europe, were scores of refugee Jewish musicians. It was easy to get, as permanent administrators of the new orchestra's trust fund, such influential Jews as Financier Israel Sieff of London, Belgian Industrialist Dannie Heineman. Palestine's Lieut. Col. Frederick Hermann Kisch. Palestine's top-notch lawyer, Solomon Horowitz. Dr. Albert Einstein took the honorary presidency of the U. S. branch of the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palestine Symphony | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

CHANGING ASIA - Egon Erwin Kisch-Knopf ($3). A famed Czechoslovakian reporter's visit to the land of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan. Under the impact of Soviet five-year-planning Turcomen and Uzbeks are leaping from the age of the camel caravan to the age of the motor truck in one jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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