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...Hoyt Wilhelm...
...known as Dr. Habsburg, is an author and lecturer on the cause of European unification. He lives outside Munich; he and his wife, German Princess Regina, have seven heirs. Also throneless as a result of World War I is Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 68, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He has a doctorate in philosophy and occupies himself with administering the family fortunes. His late wife, the Grand Duchess Kira, was the sister of Vladimir; he has seven children and lives near Bremen...
Bunch of Cowboys. In 1936 Abravanel sailed for New York and, armed with letters of introduction from Conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler, got a job conducting at the Metropolitan Opera. He made his debut conducting Delibes' Lakme, starring Lily Pons. Two years later he quit to become Weill's music director on Broadway, conducting such classics as Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus...
Died. Michael Polanyi, 84, physical chemist and philosopher who was a leading scientist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin before he resigned in protest against the Nazis in 1933; in London. Hungarian-born, Polanyi achieved distinction in early X-ray research. A voluntary exile from Hitler's Third Reich, Polanyi moved to England and turned to social science. In 1940 he published The Contempt of Freedom, an attack on Soviet intellectual authoritarianism. Later, Polanyi argued that natural science alone cannot account for "the fact of human greatness...
Even indoors, where Tiant was working out, all of his pitches moved well. His knuckleball waved and then broke down as it neared the plate, in the best tradition of Hoyt Wilhelm and Wilbur Wood. The knuckler, a pitch that doesn't require as much strength as the fastball, is a welcome addition to Tiant's arsenal, because he's getting older and won't be able to throw as hard as he used...