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...UCLA and then to New York to try to make an acting career New York in the '50s was friendlier to actors. There were lots of theaters, and television (not yet abstracted to Los Angeles) was serving as a new outlet. Dean joined the ranks of young actors at Strassburg's Actor's Studio and began getting small parts in televised plays. All of these shows were live...
Born in 1895, in Muenster, Westphalia, he was educated at the Universities of Munich, Strassburg, Muenster, and Bonn, receiving a Doctor of Economics degree from Bonn in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he was on the Western Front as an officer in the German Army. As a member of the Centrist party, he was elected to the Reichstag for the first time in 1924, and in 1929 became head of his party in the Reichstag...
Having spent ten years in various German universities, including Munich, Strassburg, Munster and Bonn, he is thoroughly acquainted with academic life and methods. His studies have embraced the fields of history, government and literature, and he has contributed articles to various political and literary journals...
Other incunabula, or editions printed before 1500, in the exhibit are "Works," printed in Venice in 1490 and edited by Philomusus, another Venetian edition dated 1498, one edited by John Reinhard in Strassburg of the same vintage, and Ascensius version of the "Ars Poetica," printed in paris in 1500. Also on display are two illuminated copies of the "Works," printed by Aldus of Venice...
Especially fascinating are Perry's accounts of his own undergraduate days at Williams, and his studies in Berlin and Strassburg. He was captain and catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...