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Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees...
...proceeded to send out new equipment for raids it termed "heaviest yet"-on Berlin for the first time in 82 days, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr, Kiel, Bremen. This week the Germans admitted that the North German Lloyd Liner Bremen was being consumed by a "fire of undetermined origin." The R. A. F. thought it knew...
With the Germans complete masters of France, he said, "we cannot judge in specific cases whether actions taken by the Vichy Government are of French origin, merely suggested by Germany, the results of bargaining between the two governments, or actual demands of the Nazis...
...warned that if Britain wins the war Hungary will pay. By week's end the pre-war Rumanian-British friendship had run its course to overt enmity. After the rupture of diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 17) the British Board of Trade announced that all goods of Rumanian origin, destination or ownership henceforth would be considered enemy contraband...
...wrote over 400 books. Because of his enormous practice, he was hated by other Roman doctors. Galen believed that the body was a perfect machine, dominated by the soul, set in motion by God. "Galen," said Dr. Castiglioni, "knows everything, has an answer for everything; he confidently pictures the origin of all diseases and outlines their cure." He perpetuated "fundamental errors," and "produced a long arrest in medical evolution." Yet he "recognized seven of the twelve pairs of cerebral nerves . . . and knew most of the gross structures of the brain as we know them today...