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...third of the Swedish Brahes, married a sister of King Gustaf Vasa, "father of modern Sweden,'' in the early 16th century. His grandson, Per Brahe the Younger was Governor General of Finland. In 1632 Nils Brahe, of the "Blue Brigade," died with King Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of L??tzen...
...base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and L??tzow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
...late great Louis Pasteur (1822-95) gave medicine its modern turn and who lived long enough to win a Nobel Prize (1905),* discovered the tuberculosis bacillus. It is often called Koch's bacillus. One of Koch's and Pasteur's early disciples in the new medicine was young L??on Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German war (1870-71). He went into the French navy...
...draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of L??beck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle Colette. Colette, who acted L??a in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...