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...week's end, close to 2,000 readers had swamped the Alsops with answers (most of them wrong). The winner: Theodore Geiger, 38, National Planning Assoc. research chief, who was first to guess that the quote was from Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, the opponents Rome (Russia) and Carthage (the U.S.). The victor: Rome...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
Some 4,365,000 Austrians voted this week for a new President to succeed the late Dr. Karl Renner. Their choice: General Theodor Koerner, a spade-bearded septuagenarian (78), who was born an aristocrat and served as an officer in the imperial army, but long ago dropped the von from his name, turned Socialist, and after World War II became mayor of Vienna. His defeated opponent (by a slim margin): Dr. Heinrich Gleissner, candidate for the Christian-Democratic People's Party, governor of Upper Austria, and onetime civil servant in Austria's antiSocialist, pro-clerical Dollfuss government...
...WORLD'S LAST CORNER (295 pp.)-Theodor Plievier-Appleton-Century-Crofts...
...Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948), Theodor Plievier, German novelist, wrote what still remains the most powerful novel of World War II. Leaning on that fact, his U.S. publishers have now issued an "adaptation" of two earlier Plievier novels written in the '30s, and called it The World's Last Corner. The stories, clumsily adapted, add nothing to the reputation of the man who wrote Stalingrad, but they have several lively moments, and show something of what Plievier was up to before the Wehrmacht rolled into Russia...