Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
...live to be at least 100. Its title: You Are Younger Than You Think (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $2.75). The author is Dr. Martin Gumpert of Manhattan, refugee from Nazi Germany, sometime German soldier, plastic surgeon, dermatologist, biographer, poet and the model for the character Mai-Sachme in Thomas Mann's Joseph the Provider (TIME, July...
...THOMAS MANN...
...Mann sends his manuscripts piecemeal to his translator, who works on them almost as hard (eight hours a day) as their author does. Mrs. Lowe bakes her own bread (see cut), keeps house for her husband, Dr Elias Avery Lowe, an Oxford paleographer, who joined the staff of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in 1936. Her hyphenated surname is the result of her mistaken notion that married Britons always join surnames...
...present she is on an island off the Maine coast, translating Mann's current work-in-progress...