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EMBEZZLED HEAVEN-Franz Werfel-Viking...
...York City they received a radiogram from the League of American Writers, summoning them to a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Thinking they had been rescued by the Emergency Rescue Committee, Authors Mann and Werfel were puzzled. But not wishing to seem rude, they said: all right, they would come...
...Writers Committee disclaimed all but a small share in Feuchtwanger's getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...
...confused people. Awaiting them at the dinner were Harper's able, amiable President Cass Canfield; Clifton Paul Fadiman (Information Please), who was master of ceremonies; some dozen Manhattan publishers; 1,500 guests who raised $14,000 for the work of the Exiled Writers Committee. But Exhibits Mann and Werfel did not show...
Meanwhile the Emergency Rescue Committee made no comment beyond announcing a dinner of its own, also at the Hotel Commodore, in honor of distinguished Exiles Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden. Distinguished speaker: Thomas Mann...