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...then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Alois Pernerstorfer, bass; Gertrude Grob-Prandl, soprano; Herbert Handt, tenor; Hilde Konetzni, soprano; Alfred Poell, bass; Hedda Heusser, soprano; Oskar von Czerwenka, bass; Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna...
Leaders of the group are Oskar F. Bock, lecturer at the University of Vienna music conductor Felix Molzer, who brought his Vienna Choir Boys to America last spring, and Susanne Polsterer, young Viennese teacher and actress, who will star in tonight's performance...
...Pressure. I talked with Oskar Kochne, a blue-eyed, 21-year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon...
...Kaiser's other children: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich (died 1942), Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim (died 1920) and Princess Victoria Louise...