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...season got under way, several large, attractive series were on the counters. Victor released the second two LP volumes of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three...
...Named after Dr. Wilhelm Kroll, who discovered the present method of refining titanium while working for the U.S. Bureau of Mines (TIME...
More dangerous than smoking are the many particles (mostly tars) breathed in by industrialized Western man, declared Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Factory soot, arsenical dust, engine-exhaust fumes all contain such dangerous particles. In one N.C.I. survey of ten U.S. cities, tars were filtered out of the air, and even in tiny doses (.05 gram) they were found to cause skin cancer in laboratory mice...
...little wheel of Nazi Germany who rolls long and far enough can apparently come to rest on the lists of a U.S. publisher. Unregenerate Nazis get there with the rest. Austrian-born Wilhelm Hoettl, 38, qualifies with the very first sentence of his book, The Secret Front: "I do not propose to start by moralizing on my reasons for entering the German Secret Service...
...Hoettl, Ribbentrop, when enraged, would shut himself up in his darkened bedroom. This was called his "midnight tango act," and while it was on, foreign office underlings would secure the Deputy Foreign Minister's signature on papers they knew Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not have signed. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, was passionately fond of his dachshunds, says Hoettl and when abroad would telephone daily to inquire of their health. Requesting a transcript of one of the admiral's tapped phone calls from Tangier to Berlin, the chief of the Spanish secret police...