Word: manne
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When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...
...Your literary critic committed in my eyes and in the eyes of everybody I spoke to a really unfair attack on the greatest living exponent of the German literature in his article on Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette in TIME, June 8. . . . Only Thomas Mann is in the same class...
Gladys Schmitt was born in Pittsburgh in 1909, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she began a close study of the texts of Proust and Mann. The Gates of Aulis, which took her five years to write, is the winner of the biennial Dial Press Award "for an outstanding novel that concerns itself realistically with the problems of adjustment which face young men and women of America today." Last month Gladys Schmitt went back to Pittsburgh to spend a year in research, preparatory to writing a novel about King David...
...country day schools (Baltimore's Gilman preceded it by ten years), Riverdale was an early model for a new group of schools that now includes some of the finest and most famed in the U.S.-Winnetka's North Shore Country Day, New York's Horace Mann, Philadelphia's Friends Central, St. Louis' Country Day and John Burroughs, Cambridge's Browne & Nichols, Wilmington's Tower Hill, Brooklyn's Polytech...
This team is the apex of 25 years of head-coaching by Yale's great Natatutor Robert John Herman Kiphuth, whose charges in all that time have lost but three intercollegiate championship matches and nine dual meets. Swore Michigan's Coach Matt Mann: "Yale's is the greatest swimming team that has ever been gathered together. It's a truly great combination and much stronger than any of our previous Olympic teams...