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Graduated by Virginia's Polytechnic Institute in 1895, young Dodd went to Germany, took his Ph. D. at the University of Leipzig. Later he taught history at Randolph-Macon, went to the University of Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson...
...sentiments of affectionate friendship toward the entire Wagner family. . . ." The "lamentable events" Frau Wagner and all the world knew referred to the Nazi attacks which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has condoned, if not instigated, against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their...
...year-old Pomeranian farmer, may well be surprised at the fuss he has stirred up. So would his neighbors be if they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money with his third book...
Swooping to Leipzig next day Chancellor Hitler, who can play the piano and prefers to play Wagner, sat through a musical commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Wagner's death. A bachelor and only 43, Handsome Adolf has often been rumored engaged to Frau Winifred Wagner, 35, an English-born widow whose maiden name was Williams, and who is the relict of Genius Wagner's son Siegfried. Greeting Frau Wagner formally though courteously, Chancellor Hitler left her with the stereotyped phrase, "Auf wiedersehen, Gnädige Frau...
Among the dead was Sieger (Champion) Lenz-Assmannsheim, undefeated three-time champion of Germany. Imported from Leipzig seven weeks ago, he was entered for the Maryland Kennel Club show last week, the great Westminster show next week. Also dead was Parmenio Ditmarsia, champion of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, entered for the same shows...