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...Night in Lisbon, Remarque (7) 10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer...
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Something of a cult has also grown up around the memory of Father Alfred Delp, a sociologist who was arrested for joining a group of Protestant and Catholic intellectuals who met secretly at the home of Protestant Layman Helmuth von Moltke to plan for the reconstruction of post-Hitler Germany along Christian and democratic lines. Arrested after the failure of the plot against Hitler, Delp was hanged seven months later. Another saintly priest was Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg of Berlin, who was imprisoned and ultimately deported to Dachau after praying for the Jews at St. Hedwig's Cathedral...
Died. Dr. Rufus ("Rex") von Klein-Smid, 89, president of the University of Southern California from 1921 to '46, a crusty, controversial administrator who expanded U.S.C.'s plant from three to 22 buildings, increased enrollment from 5,000 to 12,000 and concentrated hard on a championship football team, but paid his professors minuscule salaries (some got as little as $2,600 a year); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
...best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...