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...WHEN... "Drink at least eight glasses of water a day!" It may have the ring of authority, but when physiologist Dr. Heinz Valtin searched for scientific evidence behind the dictum, he found the glass empty. Hot weather and exercise raise our H2O demands, but for most folks, says Valtin, eight is unnecessary, and excessive water intake can increase exposure to pollutants and in rare cases cause health problems...
Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who pursued a sordid international course as Communist revolutionary, San Quentin jailbird, roving OGPU agent and fugitive, then told all in 1941's bestselling Out of the Night; of pneumonia; in Chestertown, Md. After barely escaping deportation, German-born Author Krebs served as a combat soldier in the Pacific, became a U.S. citizen and president of a Chestertown P.T.A...
...Author Buber gives no details of Heinz Neumann's role in the German Communist party (and in the Comintern) before his fall from grace. Other ex-Communists, writing books of their own, have told more. In Out of the Night (1941), the late Jan Valtin described him as "the ruthless Heinz Neumann," chief of the anti-Nazi division of the German Communist party, who once, in ordering a strong-arm demonstration, told Valtin: "Ich will Leichen sehen" (I want to see corpses...
...Valtin, ex-OGPU agent who told all in his best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...
Americans have shown a willingness to take most of their information about communism and Russia from a curious and shameless lot of renegades. Krebs ("Valtin"), Kravehenko, and Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...