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George Ohrstrom was born at Ford River, Mich., a dark and precocious child of Teutonic-Scandinavian parents. The Ohrstroms moved west, to Washington where the son was educated in Tacoma High School. After some youthful experience in lumbering and railroad construction, he went back to Michigan, to the university at...
Your critic speaks of the "many ponderous plums" which can be "pulled out of this (my) heavy Teutonic pudding." I like plum pudding but I always thought that it was an English, not a Teutonic dish. His description of me "thick-spectacled, thick-lipped and thick-nosed" wounds my Narcissism...
MY FLESH AND BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson'...
Mutterliebe, Heimatsklange, Gretel und Liesel (German Independent Companies). In cities like Manhattan, St. Louis, Chicago, the German population is large enough to give capacity business to the little theatres which show such all-German pictures as these. Mutterliebe is a story of mother-love overlaid with Teutonic sentiment but built...
The Author. Maxwell Bodenheim, 35, blond, squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class...