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...name is Heinrich Langkopf. His demeanor is upright and engaging though his eyes are haggard. He is 54 and has now been certified by Berlin police physicians as "entirely sane." Last week, he convinced a large section of German public opinion that there are circumstances in which a private citizen is justified in enforcing his claims upon the State by means of a bomb...
...singular negative twist of this statement made people read it again. What upright-downright politician was this, so lacking in illusions, so intellectually honest, that he would publicly admit that the voters might conceivably get along without...
...covers came loose and revealed standing upright, inside each jar a small sarcophagus, the elaborate golden miniature of the great gold case that held the king's mummy. The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested a great Chinese nest of boxes, one cunningly held within the other...
...openhandedness, his exuberance, his loyalty to friends and his able management of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., went two weeks ago to a game of bowls at the Cleveland Athletic Club. At the club building he grasped a bronze door handle, staggered, dropped to one knee, pulled himself upright. Half inside the door he collapsed. The heavy door slammed upon him-dead of heart failure...
Culturally Ambassador Herrick is Franco-American. Patriotically he is straight U. S. As an upright lawyer and a banker of authentic vision, he is cream skimmed from the Western Reserve. Complex, he interests. Last week his many admirers, loyal, enthusiastic, dwelt again on the five major steps in his triumphantly surprising life...