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...first, Carpenter "acted like a little god," boasted he was "smarter than the cops," who had mauled him a few years before. Then, slowly, he began describing the long night of his past: an opera-loving slum kid raised on a fading section of Chicago's Schiller Street, where there was no one to talk to about opera, but only "guns and crazy money," where he found only a day-to-day, dreamless darkness-then a dreary round of petty stickups, a dead cop, the final terror of sitting on a couch, holding an innocent family...
...swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory to Mann as those in Germany. A month ago Mann was hospitalized in Zurich with phlebitis. Last week...
Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, visiting professor of German at the University of Chicago, will deliver a public lecture on "The Notion of Artistic Detachment from Schiller to the Present Day" at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D. Miss Wilkinson will draw examples from German, French, and English literature...
...back of the Wolverines' front wall, however, will be two burly defensemen ready to show the Eastern teams how rough their Western sport can be. Mike Buchanan, a former Chicago Blackhawks' prospect, and Bob Schiller start at the blue line for Michigan...
When the traveller goes from Bahnhof Zoo to Friedrichstrasse the violejnt change of atmosphere is not so much physical as in the attitudes of the people. "Hauptmann von Koppenick", a bitter satire on German militarism, plays to packed houses in West Berlin's new Schiller Theatre. The evening I attended the spirit of the West Berliner expressed itself in someting more powerful than words...