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...Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance, she gave the vast art treasure to the city of Munich...
Staked Continents. Writing in a shabby Munich apartment just before and during World War I, Spengler gloomily concluded that history was witnessing the decline of the West. As in the "age of the Caesars," art and music had lost all real creative vitality. Power over the affairs of men had centered in a few enormous cities (megalopolis). Soon the masses of people, without hope or sense of form, would turn to a "second religiousness," clinging to blind faiths out of desperate need, while a series of world leaders backed by enormous military power would vie with one another over...
...killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains one student at the University of Munich. He sees fraternities as a splendid antidote to the rootless "academic proletariat" at West German universities, "those unaffiliated students who behave like juvenile delinquents...
Born. To Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 25, former gymnastics teacher and granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 29, doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Munich: a prince (who will automatically be excluded from Lutheran Sweden's royal line of succession because his father is a Roman Catholic...
White took a year out from pro football to go to Oxford University in 1939 as a Rhodes scholar. He met Jack Kennedy at a diplomatic reception in London, where Jack's father was U.S. Ambassador. They met again the next summer, when both were vacationing in Munich, and again in the Solomon Islands just after Kennedy had become a PT boat hero. "I liked him and found him interesting," says White, who won two bronze stars of his own as a naval intelligence lieutenant on an aircraft carrier...