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Died. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, 83, scholarly Chancellor of pre-Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...
...what the Zulu word for "home" is (we haven't found it yet); what the late President Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors, writers, researchers, and of tomorrow's letters...
...drooping facial lines of a world-weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis. He is Professor Albert Einstein, author of the Theory of Special Relativity, the Unified Field Theory, and a decisive expansion of Max Planck's Quantum Theory, onetime director of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Professor Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, onetime Swiss citizen, onetime Enemy No.1 of Hitler's Third Reich, now a U.S. citizen...
Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, daughter of Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm, was awarded a title that seemed almost too much for one young girl to shoulder. Judges at a beauty contest in Washington picked her as Miss United Nations...