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Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory. He appealed to the quisling Minister of Fine Arts at The Hague. Said the Minister: "Give up the ants." So the Professor carried them off to Berlin, after ostentatiously signing a receipt...
...Vichyites disappeared, the names of democratic French leaders came back into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...
Anton Bruckner was born in the Austrian Tyrol in 1824, three years before the death of Beethoven. A great, hulking, oafish man with a huge beaked nose and the manners of a country bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years...
...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol, brought it back to the U.S. But his family took a low view of it all, so George, with about $10,000 of his own money, went...