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...retire, 59-year-old Bayard Dodge had repeated that Good Samaritan act many times and in many ways. It was an act he more than walked through. Son of the copper-rich Dodges, he followed the family path to Princeton but swerved off to study theology. On a Wanderjahr around the world in 1908, Bayard stopped off at the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon. There he met his childhood friend, Mary Bliss, granddaughter of the university's founder and first president, and daughter of its second...
During his involuntary Wanderjahr Wissenback crossed frontiers half a dozen times, rode next to German officers in trains. Once he had his picture taken with a cheerful group of Italian soldiers - he has the snapshot to prove it. Food was a problem at times, and Wissenback lived on raw fish and turnips for several days, but he was in fair shape and only a few pounds under weight when he reached his base again...
...Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter Rosenthal spent on the western plains in 1874 as "ein wirklicher Cowboy." Through the Art Alliance of America he offered in 1930 three prizes, $1,500, $750, $500 for small sculpture "typically American in theme," suitable for reproducing...