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Died. Otto Strasser, 76, onetime intimate turned archenemy of Adolf Hitler; of a heart attack; in Munich. An early ally of the rising Führer, Strasser preached Nazism with a socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked...
...Arabian Nights adventure in Morocco. Effective and colorful as some of this is, what does it have to do with Hughes' larger theme? The interrelation between private and public realms seems to have broken down. The narrative tends to lurch from near-history to near-fiction ("But Hitler, Strasser-how could these distant rivalries ever matter to Coventry...
...nothing went Penn's way. Randy Barnett, Harvard's steady No. 5 man, rebounded from a 6-3 loss and pinned 6-4 and 7-5 defeats on Steve Strasser to win the third point. On the main court at No. 1 Crimson sophomore Harris Masterson was rallying to split sets in a classic match with National Indoor champion John Adams. Masterson, who had lost to Navy's Craig Dawson 6-1, 6-1, on Friday, dropped the first set 6-3, but came back to capture the second by the same score...
...third doubles, Kawakami and sophomore Rick Devereux rallied from a 6-4 loss in the first set to overcome Hazam and Steve Strasser 12-10, 6-4, for Harvard's seventh point...
...Lyons' rebellion, happily enough, has extended to a complete repudiation of his part. He is the Duke; not Shakespeare's Duke, to be sure, but a dazzlingly royal admixture of Hapsburg and Abdul Hammid, of Bette Davis and John Finley, with perhaps a hint of Angela Lansbury and Major Strasser. When he is on the stage, he does not dominate so much as devastate the pretensions of everyone else. He is, in fact, infinitely more attractive than Shakespeare's Duke ever can be; it is as though Laughton were playing Peter O'Toole...