Word: pringsheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Housecleaning. He married Katja Pringsheim, the daughter of a professor at Munich University, and it was out of his wife's experience in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients that he built another great success, The Magic Mountain, this time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they...
...HANS E. PRINGSHEIM Tokyo Sir: . . . Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey...
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