Word: klaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decision, and it called itself "a new forum for the creative spirit." Most distinguished thing about Decision was the list of writers and intellectuals who had banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets no salary for his editorial labors, is not an officer of Decision, Inc. His only pay is for his articles...
...lawyer) Westrick arrived in the U. S. through the back door from Japan. He brought with him his dark, beautiful wife, and his two boys, Klaus, 9, and Peter, 6. They put up at Manhattan's swank Plaza Hotel. For several weeks, short, stocky, snow-haired, direct-speaking, wound-limping Dr. Westrick did his business from there...
...OTHER GERMANY-Erlka & Klaus Mann-Modern...
Gustaf grew up on the family estate at Louhisaari, of which Sophia's biographer wrote: "The ceiling of the Church salon is decorated with paintings depicting Admiral Klaus Fleming's sea battles, while the murals of the Devil's Chamber depict a mellower 18th-Century splendor. . . . The park and gardens are especially well planned and cared for. . . . Behind the park glittered the bay of the sea. . . . That this kind of childhood home engendered refinement and sensitivity to beauty in its inhabitants is natural...