Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he has little sense of what makes news, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909, last month invited his old friend and classmate, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl of Munich, to '09s 25th reunion at Cambridge in June as one of his aides. Because he has a keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then...
Dazed, Marshal Cutler put through a transatlantic call to Hanfstaengl's home in Munich. He talked for seven minutes, spent $80. Then, omitting to mention the call, he told newshawks that "Putzy'' had refused the invitation, letter to follow. Said Marshal Cutler: "I wish to make it clear that the appointment of aides at the alumni exercises is made by the chief marshal, who is elected by the directors of the Alumni Association, and not by the university authorities...
Died. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78, founder & director of Munich's Deutsches Museum, world's greatest permanent industrial and scientific exhibit; in Munich, Germany...
...playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard loyalty and his German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration of the sinking of the Lusitania and was asked to resign. When the U. S. went...
Last month Harvard Professor Elliott Carr Cutler, 1909 Class Marshal, remembered his pleasant post-graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words...