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...other Jews, in a German concentration camp. To fill out the chronicle of her short life, West German Publisher S. Fischer last year assigned Author Ernst Schnabel to search the German and Dutch archives and interview survivors of the camps who might have known her. In Paris Le Figaro Littéraire printed excerpts from Schnabel's findings, to be published as a book in the U.S. this fall...
...probation for cutting classes, living beyond his mother's means (his father had died in 1920), Cozzens got a leave of absence at the end of his sophomore year, and never went back to Harvard's vine leaves. The school rewarded its prodigal son with an honorary Litt. D. degree in 1952 (Cozzens says he accepted it only to please his mother, who died a few months later). Nowadays, on rare trips to New York, he likes to lunch at the Harvard Club, "where everybody acts morose and nobody looks at anybody...
...John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Littérateur Sacheverell Sitwell, who put them up for auction...
...hope that these sober facts will not become lost in the political hubbub of the present campaign. It is incumbent on both presidential candidates to admit that the danger of continued H-bomb testing may be much greater than has previously been pointed out, even by Mr. Stevenson. Mike Litt...
...free-lance work as a translator and critic. In 1935, he married Renata Nordio, a classmate of his at Florence and a student of Spanish literature. But by that time Mussolini was already in power, and the intellectual atmosphere was getting somewhat unhealthy. In 1938 he won a Litt. D. from the University of Rome, but it was Munich time in Germany, so the Poggiolis fled to the United States...