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Martin Lichterman '39, Brooklyn, New York; George F. Lowman '38, New Canaan, Connecticut; Robert E. Machol '38, New York City; Robert M. Meyers '38, Newark, New Jersey; Lionel F. Miller, Jr. '37, Saranac Lake, New York; Leonard K. Nash '39, New York City; Walter P. Neumann '39, New Britain, Connecticut; John Nevins '39, New York City; John W. Otvos '39, New York City; Joseph A. Rich '38, Hazardville, Connecticut; Samuel Ritvo '33, Hartford, Connecticut; Theodore P. Robie '33, Riverdale, New York...
...took King Edward VIII to the British Indian pavilion at the Vienna Fair, to President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria and to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He went nightly to the State Opera or ballet with Mrs. Simpson and daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public opinion in Great Britain...
...Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Walter J. Bate, of Richmond, Indiana; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Missouri, Clayton J. Clawson, of Madera, California; Edger L. Haff, Jr., of Fort Edward, New York; Martin Lichterman, of Brooklyn, New York; William W. Minton, of Middletrow, Ohio; Walter P. Neumann, of New Britain, Connecticut; John Nevins, of New York City; and Harold L. Pinansky, of Portland, Maine...
Even Zaharoff's origins-his birthplace, name, nationality-are doubtful, says Biographer Neumann. Probably he was born in Mughla, a little town in Anatolia, of Greek parents, christened Zacharias Basileos Zacharoff. He spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes...
Whether progress is provable or not, even praisers of times past would have to admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than...