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Lili Kraus, a 58-year-old grandmother, has a crush on Wolfgang and she doesn't care who knows it. When she jetted to Manhattan from Vienna last month, riding alongside her was the nearly life-size bust of Mozart that accompanies her wherever she goes. She came to do him honor in the best way she knows how: by playing all 25 of his piano concertos in nine consecutive concerts, the first time such a feat has been undertaken...
...would be in Bonn. The game was only minutes old when Germany's Helmut Haller slipped a screen shot past Goalie Gordon Banks. The English bounced back, went ahead 2 to 1, and the victory celebration had already started in the stands when-oops!-Germany's Wolfgang Weber booted the ball home to tie the score, with 30 sec. to go. Into overtime it went, and for ten long minutes it looked as though the two weary teams (no substitutes are permitted in soccer) might still be playing next week. Then Geoff Hurst got his second wind, ramming...
SLAC's director, Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, 47, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grants that he is unable to predict what applications-if any-its discoveries will have, and he frankly admits that he is the proud boss of "the world's largest impractical machine...
Arnold Toynbee, inarticulate and somber, lunching daily on one banana and two apples. Albert Einstein, vainly seeking one more climactic insight, trudging home, declining rides, saying, "I must walk. I must walk." Physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, coatless in the coldest weather, striding the grounds, muffler flying. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, while sipping tea in the faculty lounge, writing non-existent equations on an imaginary blackboard, then rubbing them out with an equally imaginary eraser...
...Opium War in 1841. Hong Kong. The plague. War junks. Tongs. China clippers sailing on the tide (and on nearly every page). May-may, a Chinese concubine who gargles baby urine. Gorth Brock, a bastardo degenerado. Wolfgang Mauss. Shevaun. The priapic painter Aristotle Quance. Redhaired, green-eyed, sharkproof Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (Supreme Leader) of The Noble House, trader in poppies, mayhem...