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...time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather is coming." When Mann did not understand, they added: "The housecleaning will be too much for you." The housecleaning was done by the Nazis: the burning of his books, the revocation of his citizenship...
...place; at week's end they were in fourth, only 3½ games off the pace. Though Ted's big bat was a factor in the resurgence of the Red Sox, most of the credit goes to their little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) shortstop, Billy Klaus. A veteran castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between the minors and majors for nine years. Everywhere, he looked pretty good; nowhere could he make the grade as a major league player. Even with the Red Sox, Billy...
Says Richard Klaus, manager of Cleveland's WERE : "You might say TV is following the national magazine pattern. We pattern ourselves as closely as possible after the successful local newspaper." The formula is so successful that a year ago WERE ran out of time to sell, now stays on 24 hours a day instead of signing...
...been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore...
Most doctors know that visitors often do more to stir up hospital patients than to soothe them. But the doctors' own ward rounds can have the same effect, sometimes with fatal results, reported Finnish Doctor Klaus A. J. Jarvinen in the British Medical Journal...