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Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian aristocrat, is the backer and passenger of the flight. Seriously wounded in the War, he was invalided out of service and sent to Holland in the German consular service. A close friend of the former Crown Prince, he shared the first days of his dreary exile. He is 36, married, superstitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Or Heaven | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...scholar which has done the most to raise the academic standards of Harvard to their present high national and international rank. While his crowning honor came with the Noble prize for special achievement in chemistry in 1914, he had previously, in 1901, received a flattering invitation from the Prussian government which indirectly was a compliment to Harvard and the scientific advances of American universities in general. In declining the offer then made him of a full professorship of inorganic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Professor Richards revealed an appreciation of and a loyalty to Harvard which, as Dean Hanford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS | 4/3/1928 | See Source »

TWELVE THOUSAND?Why a Prussian Prince did not sell an army to fight for England in the Revolution (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose courage stood the crucible test of 1917 and 1918 followed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL DIAZ | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

Notables nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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