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Strassburger Prize Sirs: A jury composed of Professor Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Jakob Wassermann, representing the German branch of the Strassburger Foundation has awarded the annual prize of the Foundation for 1932 to Walther Reinhardt, German Consul in Seattle, Wash., for his book George Washington, published in Frankfurt am Rhein. The object of the Strassburger Foundation is to further good relations between the U. S. and several European countries. It has branches in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Its French jury is composed of Andre Maurois, M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes...
...temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean was a Miss Rose Douras Van Cleve, widely identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Marion Davies. Other Riga divorce-getters, di-vorce-seekers: Impresario Max Reinhardt, German Novelist Jakob Wassermann, Composer Eugen d'Albert. Princess Alice Muriel (daughter of the late John Jacob Astor) Obolensky...
...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
Genoa claims the birth of Christobal Colon, so do six other towns. Columbus' early life is wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing...
...Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...