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...grasp of international finance led to his appointment as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department. Though inevitably involved in the financial juggles of the Hitler regime, Abs did not join the Nazi Party and at the end of World War II quietly retired to his Rhineland estate. Tapped in 1948 to run the agency that distributed Marshall Plan credit to German industry, Abs soon became a close adviser to fellow Catholic Konrad Adenauer, often attended Bonn Cabinet meetings at the Chancellor's request. "When the Chancellor has worries, he calls me," said Abs. Twice, Adenauer offered...
Keeping the new art movements rolling is the Rhineland's newly prosperous postwar buying public, which is willing to splurge on experimental works. When Dusseldorf opened its stark $2,300,000 modern-art museum last month, the new Kunsthalle boasted not only an impressive display of 16 privately owned Picassos and Braques, but also works by Lichtenstein and Warhol-plus 17 works by contemporary Dusseldorf artists. The area's leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails...
...German nation. At 29, he was refused a life insurance policy as a bad risk because of weak lungs; at 68, his Gestapo jailers feared that he might commit suicide because, they reasoned, at that age, he "had nothing more to expect from life." He grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne, his birthplace. That year plastic surgery following an auto accident froze his facial features into...
Billion to One. In roughly 1000 A.D., speculates Geneticist McKusick, a Rhineland Jew was hit in the gonads by either a cosmic ray or a ray from radioactive rock such as granite. By a billion-to-one chance, the ray damaged one of the genes that govern biochemical development in the embryo's nervous system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that...
...until he is well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...