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Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
...Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies of postwar economic prospects. One such report fell into the hands of Karl Goerdeler, the Leipzig mayor who was scheduled to take over the government if the plot to assassinate Hitler had succeeded in July 1944. Goerdeler's judgment: "The man must become minister...
...mass rally" at the Leipzig stadium (last filled to its 100,000 capacity at a Protestant church day in 1954), Khrushchev was soaked by a drenching rain that broke as he entered the arena. "This is not the welcome we had planned for the glorious Soviet leader," wailed the East German TV announcer. Though trumpets blared, fireworks exploded and uniformed Communist youth groups marched, the Communist TV cameras inadvertently gave the show away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing...
...Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered and revived it 75 years later. By that time the thread of succession was broken (Bach, in the custom of his time, rarely wrote into his scores any indications...
...dealer. They were rare works from the middle period of Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the great German painters of the early 16th century. The 10¾-by-16⅛-in. wood panels, described by experts as among Cranach's finest portraits, show Moritz Buchner, mayor of Leipzig, and his wife Anna, elaborately dressed and richly bejeweled, the man gazing at the world with shrewd but not unkind eyes, the woman modest, grave, rather sad. The portraits roused considerable excitement in German art circles when they were shown in 1928 in Frankfurt, later made their way via Switzerland...