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Instantly Frau Stresemann's lawyers petitioned the German Ministry of Justice to prosecute Dr. Diehl under the Law for the Protection of the Republic. Declared her son Wolfgang...
Clarke H. Kawakami '30, of Washington, D. C., holder of the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques Fellows! up for study in France. Two research fellows from abroad have been chosen for study at the Harvard Law School. They are Sherman J. K. Chang of Nanking, China, and Wolfgang Kraus of Bad Homburg, Germany...
...Manhattan's Customs House last week a large blond man in a blue suit and yachting cap stepped up to the chief clerk of the Collector of the Port, asked for a ship's manifest form. A moment later Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau took oath as master of the flying boat 0-1422, then bobbing at her moorings in the East River after a flight from northern Germany (TIME, Sept. 1). He registered too for his crew of three students from the Deutsches Verkehrs Fliegerschule (German commercial flying school of which he is chief): Eduard Zimmer, copilot; Franz Hack, mechanic...
...Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, chief of the school for commercial pilots at Warne-munde on the Baltic, kissed his hausfrau last week, remarked casually, "It is time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane...
This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...