Word: oppenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
ESCAPE TO THE PRESENT-Johannes Steel-Farrar fy Rinehart ($2.50). Reminiscent of E. Phillips Oppenheim, the auto-biography of an exiled German journalist and onetime spy, who here admits that his sensational dispatches (including a scoop on the Nazi Blood Purge of 1934) have "rested on pretty nearly nothing but analysis and intuition...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...
Until last week most of his spare time went into digging through the vast library of War documents bequeathed to Yale (through him) by Col. House. In lighter moments he adds to his famed collection of first editions of Romancer E. Phillips Oppenheim...
...Oppenheim books taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...