Word: sauerbruch
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...only three years ago, when Sydneysiders were asked to vote on a similar plan for the harborside MCA, they gave it the thumbs-down. European architects Sauerbruch Hutton had won an international design competition to redevelop the former Maritime Services building (one scheme involved a "lightbox" over the existing art deco edifice; another had it demolished and replaced with what detractors likened to a petrol station). But public support waned, and the plan was eventually scrapped. Instead, director Macgregor set about improving the existing building, turning around the museum's deficit, and widening its community outreach; for the first time...
Quick Checks & Long Chances. Sauerbruch likes to examine students during automobile trips. Bright students are rewarded with a long ride, but dull ones are dropped along lonely highways...
...American family living in Berlin once appealed to Sauerbruch to operate on their son, desperately ill with peritonitis. Sauerbruch barked: "It will cost you $1,000." He examined the boy and growled: "This is almost hopeless; it's throwing money away." He was prevailed upon to operate anyway. Emerging from the operating room, Sauerbruch snapped: "Not a chance; he will be dead by morning. Please give me the check immediately." Next morning the patient sat up for breakfast...
...Sauerbruch went to Berlin's Charité Hospital as head of the surgical clinic and has been there ever since. He now insists that he thought all along that the Nazis were crazy. But he accepted three Nazi awards for his services-the title of Staatsrat (for doctoring President von Hindenburg), the German National Prize and a post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charit...
When the Russian Army took over Berlin, General Georgi Zhukov appointed old Sauerbruch as Berlin's public-health chief. On U.S. insistence, Sauerbruch was later fired from that job, but he remained in charge of the Charité. Last week Berliners were betting that the denazification court (the Spruchkammer) would clear the doctor. Said he, still spry and fiery at 72: "I am a physician and no Nazi...