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Author. Educated in his native Rumania, Konrad Bercovici entered the U. S. in 1916 with his Rumanian wife. Soon his stories of gypsy life were appearing in The Pictorial Review, the Century, Harper's and other magazines. His name became a familiar one in the columns of The Nation, The New Republic, The Masses, and The Liberator, where he wrote on sociological questions from the vantage of an educated man, an immigrant to one of the most complex and multicolored cities on earth?New York. The completeness with which he assimilated the flavors, forces and antecedents of his new surroundings...
...MARRIAGE GUEST?Konrad Bercovici ?Boni & Liveright...
...Mergentheim in Wurttemburg, Germany, a man of 73, busily at work writing the fifth volume of his memories sank beneath the pale hand of anaemia and last week he died. So passed Count Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf...
...little Konrad was born in Penzing, one of the suburbs of Vienna, son of a Colonel in the army. Little Konrad, too, embarked upon a military career. At 19 he was graduated from the War Academy. At 36 he became a teacher in the War School. After that his rise was rapid. In 1906 he became chief of the Austrian General Staff and a leader of the pre-War military party. He was especially strong in anti-Italian sentiment. Whenever he commanded in the border provinces near Italy he distinguished himself by his severity in dealing with any manifestation...
Died. Field Marshal Baron Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf, 73, Chief of the Imperial Austrian Staff in the War in Wurttemberg, or anaemia (see AUSTRIA, Page...