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...Last Browse. Credit for the discovery goes to Dr. Walter Stengel, 70, the director of East Berlin's Markisches Museum for the past 25 years. He had seen the 1541 Luther Bible in his museum many times, but never looked into it until last November. Then, planning to retire and flee the East zone to live in West Berlin with his son, he had been browsing through the treasures of a professional lifetime...
...turned the front cover of the Bible," says Dr. Stengel, "and there, on the inside, was a drawing with a foreshortened face. It struck a familiar note. I leafed on and found two others. The inner tension was there, the vitality, the technique." Working slowly through the book, he found another clue: an ex libris showing that the Bible had once been owned by one Hans Plock, master of embroidery at the court of the Archbishop of Halle. "With that," he says, "I was in Griinewald's territory, and I recognized the hand of the master." Other German experts...
Last week Dr. Stengel left his museum for good and settled down in West Berlin with photographs of his discoveries. When and where the original drawings would be exhibited, the East zone police were not saying...
...years since Casey Stengel began managing baseball teams, he has had more than his share of rags with the riches. Bouncing around between the major and minor leagues, Casey has gone through the familiar managerial cycle, sticking with his clubs when they are winning, getting the boot when they are down. Caroming from Worcester to the Toledo Mudhens (one pennant in six seasons) to Brooklyn (three raffish seasons) to Boston (six lean & lowly years) to Milwaukee (a pennant) to Kansas City (seventh place) to Oakland (three playoffs, one pennant), Manager Stengel has usually managed to rebound in the right direction...
...question is now academic. With four world championships in four years, Stengel is easily the most successful man in baseball. Last week the Yankees' President Dan Topping handed grizzled, durable (62) Casey Stengel a two-year contract for an estimated $80,000 a year, a record for baseball managers. Although the contract contains no special clauses, Casey, if next season parallels the last one, can expect a bonus that will shoot his salary up close...